Important Experiments in Psychology: Visual Cliff

Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk

1960

The depth ability of newborn animals and human infants to detect depth

<p>Depth perception is inherent as opposed to a learned process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To test whether infants would crawl over an apparent cliff and determine if depth perception is inborn</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether the infant was called by its mother from the cliff side or the shallow side</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether the child would crawl to its mother</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The naturally occurring animal species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether the animal preferred the shallow side or the deep side of the visual apparatus cliff</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Touch from a rat's whiskers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An outside influence that changes the effect of a dependent and independent variable</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>36 infants ranging in age from 6 months to 14 months; animals including chicks and young goats</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infants could have become distressed by looking at the drop or encouraged to cross it by their mothers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Depth perception is an innate process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It proved that many human abilities are innate, including depth perception</p> Signup and view all the answers