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Chapter 6, Section 3-HT, Exercise 162 Babies Learn Early Who They Can Trust A study 1 indicates that babies may choose not to learn from someone they dont trust. A group of 60 babies, aged 13 to l6 months, were randomly divided into two groups. Each baby watched an adult express great excitement while looking into a box. The babies were then shown the box and it either had a toy in it (the adult could be trusted) or it was empty (the adult was not reliable.) The same adult then turned on a push-on light with her forehead, and the number of babies who imitated the adult's behavior by doing the same thing was counted. The results are in Table 1. Test at a 5% level to see if there is evidence that babies are more likely to imitate those they consider reliable. Imitated 18 10 Table 1 Baties invtate those they trust Did not imitate 12 20 Reliable Unreliable

Answer 1

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