"Human beings do not demonstrate __________," said Professor Spiegelman."Otherwise most newborns would think that the physician who was handing the childbirth was its mother or father!"
A) plasticity
B) reflexes
C) instincts
D) imprinting

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Imprinting is the correct answer because it refers to a form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience and thereafter follows that object. In the context given, Professor Spiegelman is suggesting that humans do not imprint at birth, as they do not automatically assume that the first person they see (in this case, the physician) is their parent.

"Human Beings Do Not Demonstrate __________," Said Professor Spiegelman