To See If Infants Can Match Child Faces with Child

Multiple Choice

To see if infants can match child faces with child voices and adult faces with adult voices, Lorraine Bahrick and her colleagues simultaneously showed infants a picture of an adult and a picture of a child while playing an audio tape of either an adult voice or a child voice. If infants can match the child voice to the child picture, they should look at the picture of the child while the audiotape of the child voice is played. How did the infants react?

A) Infants always looked at the picture of the adult regardless of which audio tape they heard.
B) Infants were more likely to look at the picture that matched the audio tape.
C) Infants were more likely to look at the picture that did not match the audio tape.
D) Infants looked at both pictures equally regardless of which audio tape they heard.