Professor Wrightway would like to learn about the perceptual capacities of four-month-old infants but is uncertain about which procedure is most useful.You would recommend that he not choose a procedure that involves

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Deferred imitation is not suitable for studying four-month-old infants because it involves the ability to replicate actions after a delay, a skill that typically develops later in infancy. The other options (habituation, preferential looking, and operant conditioning) are appropriate for studying perceptual capacities in infants as young as four months.

Professor Wrightway Would Like to Learn About the Perceptual Capacities