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AP Psychology 1.2 Developmental Psychology. How would you respond to someone stating that babies are born without any real sense of the world around them?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by reverse, reverse

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psychology otherwise known as regular psychology, all right here's a question

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your friend tells you that babies are born without any real sense of the world

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around them how do you respond... and here are your potential answers.....

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All right well before we get into the [Man with eyes crossed]

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answers a quick word about this friend of yours sounds like the perfect party

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buddy don't pass up this guy those of you watching might be too young to know

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this yet but remember the best wingman are the ones who will start [Man with a wingman at the table with a girl]

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conversations with irrelevant random comments, the weirder your wingman looks

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generally the better you look but if you insist on countering his wild claims with

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accurate information instead of just letting your baby obsessed friend do his thing [Friend holding a baby and guy pestering him]

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figure out which of these answers would be correct we'll start with A.... Babies

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actually have most of their senses at near normal levels when they're born and [A newborn baby]

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they can even hear before birth so watch what you say rose by any other name may

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smell as sweet but that doesn't mean it'll be happy to hear Agnus.. as a

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potential name moving on to B; while it's true that babies do actually have [Baby swinging from a rope and falls into a stream]

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very good reflexes including an innate ability to grasp objects they do not

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have more reflexes than a normal full grown person which yes also means that [Baby jumps over a teddy in slow motion]

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the potential crime-fighting ninja babies becoming a thing is pretty much nil..

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Go ahead answer C.. This one's a half truth and a very random one at that [Baby sucks his thumb]

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on the one hand babies can suck their thumbs from birth and are often seen

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doing so in the ultrasounds in the womb there even before the birth but on the

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other hand newborn babies cannot see clearly they can detect light and motion [Baby wearing a pair of glasses]

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but that's about it which we think is the case for a lot of people seriously

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have you ever seen of the drivers on the roads these days...

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Anyway look at the headed our remaining answers D&E we see this no sight thing [Letters D and E through the sight of binoculars]

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is a bit of a game-changer answer E says that a baby has all five senses clear as

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day which we already know it does not makes answer D correct babies can't

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see that they can smell taste and touch so basically like you know ninety-five [Baby wearing glasses driving down a road]

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percent of drivers and just to recap babies won't be acing any eye exams when

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they're first born but they do have all their other senses fully develop pretty [Baby wearing glasses and ear, nose, mouth and hand appears]

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much but just because you have all this new knowledge about babies and what they

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can and cannot do doesn't mean you always have to use it no need to correct

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your new wingman you can just let him do his thing sit back and reap the social [Man with a girl and love hearts float above them both]

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benefits..

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