Studies by DeCasper and His Colleagues, in Which Women Read

Multiple Choice

Studies by DeCasper and his colleagues, in which women read the Cat in the Hat to their fetuses every day during the last six and a half weeks of pregnancy, suggest that

A) the ability to process information and benefit from experience may already be operative prenatally.
B) very few of the fetuses were able to hear the story.
C) a fetus may pay more attention to a familiar pattern of sounds than to an unfamiliar one.
D) fetal heart rate decreases when an unfamiliar story is being read.