One-month-old infants were given either a smooth pacifier or one with hard nubs on which to suck. Although they had not seen the pacifier while sucking on it, when given the opportunity to look, the infants stared longer at the type of pacifier that they had sucked on. This shows that they have

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The fact that the infants were able to match the visual stimulus (the pacifier) with the tactile input (the type they had sucked on) indicates cross-modal perception, which is the ability to use information from one sense to make inferences about others. The other options, dark adaptation and repression, are not relevant to this scenario, and inter-sensory sensation is not a recognized term in developmental psychology.

One-Month-Old Infants Were Given Either a Smooth Pacifier or One