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infant perception  

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  • Late in the 19th century, the pioneering psychologist William James in The Principles of Psychology famously summarized what he believed to be the infant's perceptual experience, “The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion,” and suggested, “Infants must go through a long education of eye and ear before they can perceive the realities which adults perceive. Every perception is an acquired perception” (p. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Infant Perception]

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