Quinn et al. (1993) examined the abilities of 3- and 4-month-old infants. After they looked at a series of photographs of cats, the infants were shown two new photos, one of a cat and one of a dog. They looked longer at the photograph of the dog. This indicated that infants this age ____.

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The infants' preference for the new photo of a dog suggests that they were able to categorize the cat photos and recognized the dog as a different category, demonstrating categorization abilities at 3-4 months old. The study did not provide evidence to suggest that the infants had a preference for dogs over cats or were bored with the cat photos. The infants' ability to recognize dogs was also not related to uncertainty about what dogs were.

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