Which of the following is NOT the case regarding human infants?
Correct answer: B. Infants are unable to process perceptual information.
- A. Infants are independent upon others for the provision of basic needs.
- B. Infants are unable to process perceptual information.
- C. Babies have an array of perceptual and physical capacities which enable them to engage with the world in more complex ways than once believed.
- D. Some of the baby's capacities seem to be presant at birth. some develop rapidly during the first year or so, and some very according to the opportunities for exercising them.
Explanation
Infants can process perceptual information and are born with several perceptual and physical capacities, although these develop rapidly through experience. They remain dependent on caregivers for basic needs, making inability to process perception the false statement.
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