Laura gazes out the window and her 6-month-old son stops mouthing his toy and also looks out the window,demonstrating the ability known as:
A)social referencing.
B)joint attention.
C)overimitation.
D)object permanence.

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Joint attention refers to the ability to share attention with another person or object. In this scenario, Laura and her son are both gazing out the window, indicating that they are sharing attention and demonstrating the ability of joint attention. Social referencing involves looking to another person's emotional response to guide one's own behavior, overimitation is the tendency to copy unnecessary steps in a task and object permanence is the understanding that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. None of these apply to the scenario described.

Laura Gazes Out the Window and Her 6-Month-Old Son Stops