Juanita Read the Children's Story No Such Things Out Loud

Multiple Choice

Juanita read the children's story No Such Things out loud while she was pregnant. Once her baby was born, Juanita noticed that she sucked on her pacifier much more when she would read No Such Things, relative to other stories. What is the best explanation for why this occurs?

A) Babies prefer novel stimuli and tend to pay less attention to stories that they have heard repeatedly.
B) Babies can hear inside the womb and are able to recognize songs or stories once they are born.
C) Babies respond to the sound of their mother's voice only and do not show preference for stories.
D) Babies prefer melodic sounds relative to other noise and display more activity to rhyming stories.