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Younganimals prefer flavors that were experienced duringeither gestation or lactation.
It would have been interesting to hear about examples of said animal studies and how they compare to these findings.
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Those whowere exposed to carrots during pregnancy were per-ceived by their mothers as enjoying the carrot-fla-vored cereal more
Is it possible that this is due to confirmation bias and the idea that the mothers want to believe their infant is enjoying the flavored cereal?
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Trained raters
What qualifies someone as a "trained rater"?
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who wereunaware of the hypothesis of the study
This is extremely important in many studies as it eliminates any possible bias from skewing the data.
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Forty-six pregnant mothers (39 white, 4 black, 2 Hispanic, 1Asian
It is interesting to see the breakdown of race within this study, especially because its preference for white pregnant mothers over non-white pregnant mothers is clear and most likely created biased data.
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The fetus not only learns the speech charac-teristics of the mother prenatally,7 but shortly afterbirth, infants prefer their mother’s voice,8 a passagerecited to them prenatally,7 and the theme music of asoap opera watched by their mothers during preg-nancy.9
How could a child's preference for their mother's voice be affected if the mother is abusive/mainly uses negative tones? Could this deter the child from preferring their mother's voice to other individuals?
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