When the mother is standing over the crib where the infant is,Jerome Bruner observed that the three to eight-week-old baby will become agitated and begin to cry if the infant hears the mothers' voice coming from a loudspeaker rather than her mouth.This illustrates that babies
A) are startled by loud noises.
B) have more acute vision than was previously thought.
C) seem to understand that a person's voice and body should be connected.
D) are unable to localize and predict where sounds should come from.

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This observation by Jerome Bruner suggests that even very young infants understand that a person's voice and body are connected, and that they expect to hear the mother's voice coming directly from her mouth. The fact that they become agitated when they hear her voice from a loudspeaker instead supports this idea. This indicates that babies are able to localize sounds and predict where they should be coming from, but they have a specific expectation for the source of their mother's voice.

When the Mother Is Standing Over the Crib Where the Infant