If 2-month-old infants can assign objects to different categories without knowing those objects' names, then you would predict that at this age, an infant would
A) spend more time staring at an image of a horse than an image of dog during a test phase, after having seen a large number of various dog images during a prior habituation phase.
B) spend the same about the amount of time staring at an image of a horse as an image of dog during the test phase, after having seen a large number of only dog images during a habituation phase.
C) not recognize that a favorite stuffed bear toy was replaced by a similar stuffed kitty toy.
D) spend more time looking at a familiar stuffed bear toy than a new, similar kitty toy.

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The ability to assign objects to categories without knowing their names is known as perceptual categorization. Based on this ability, the infant would spend more time staring at a new object (horse) than a familiar object (dog) during the test phase. This is because the horse image belongs to a different category than the familiar dog images seen during the habituation phase, and infants of this age can differentiate between categories based on perceptual features such as shape, size, and color.

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