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A developmental psychologist is interested in the visual abilities of newborn children. Baby Katherine is participating in a study on the visual abilities of newborns. Her mother is holding her while a psychologist shows Katherine a variety of images. Which one will Katherine look at the longest?

a zebra
a hammer
a human face
a box of matches

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Answer: a human face.

Step-by-step explanation:

Katherine will look at a human face longest because the human face is something she has seen before the study e.g her mother's face. It is what the baby is familiar with.

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