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A six week old foetus

Source: © Tony Stone Images. Reproduced with permission.

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Differentiation and development of the sex organs

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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006

Ways in which an infant scans faces at 1 month and 2 months old

Source: Adapted from Salapatek, P., Pattern perception in early infancy. In L.B. Cohen and P. Salapatek (eds), Infant Perception: From sensation to cognition. New York: Academic Press, 1975. Copyright 1975, with permission from Elsevier.

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Babies’ processing of face-like and non-face-like stimuli

Source: Reproduced with permission from Umilta, C., Simion, F. and Valenza, E., Newborns’ preference for faces, European Psychologist, 1996, 1(3), p. 202. © 1996 by Hogrefe & Huber.

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A visual cliff

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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006

The four periods of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development

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Carlson, Martin and Buskist, Psychology, 2nd European edition © Pearson Education Limited 2006

Object permanence

Source: Adapted from Bower, T.G.R., Perception in Infancy (2nd edition). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1972.