Which statement is NOT an example of the importance of timing on the relation between nature and nurture?
A) Infants who are impulsive are more likely than other infants to exhibit antisocial behavior in later childhood.
B) If infants who are born with a defect that inhibits their ability to focus their eyes on the same point are not given restorative surgery by the age of 3, they will never have normal depth perception.
C) Infants have the ability to hear differences in phonemes that are not important in their native language, but they lose this ability after 12 months of age.
D) Maternal rubella causes visual and auditory damage to the fetus when the rubella occurs early in pregnancy, but not when it occurs late in pregnancy.

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Statement A does not explicitly mention timing or the importance of timing in the relation between nature and nurture. The statement only suggests a correlation between infant impulsivity and later antisocial behavior. The other statements explicitly mention the critical timing of certain events, such as the need for restorative surgery by age 3, the loss of ability after 12 months, and the timing of maternal rubella.

Which Statement Is NOT an Example of the Importance of Timing