A researcher would examine experience-expectant brain development by ______.
A) conducting tests of motor skill ability on infants
B) observing toddlers playing in a playground with a lot of equipment and toddlers in a playground with minimal equipment
C) doing sensory deprivation experiments with animals to see what impact that had on abilities
D) putting some animals in stimulating environments and some animals in deprived environments and measuring brain size

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Experience-expectant brain development refers to the process by which the brain develops and organizes itself in response to sensory experiences that occur in the normal environment of all members of a species. Sensory deprivation experiments with animals are a direct way to study how the absence of normal sensory experiences affects brain development and abilities, making option C the correct choice.

A Researcher Would Examine Experience-Expectant Brain Development by ______