In experiments using the visual cliff, babies are prompted to
A) crawl over a glass bridge above a deep canyon.
B) crawl along the edge of a deep canyon.
C) avoid being pushed off the edge of a canyon.
D) crawl along a steep incline.
Question 2Researchers studying depth perception in infants often use
A) Thorndike's puzzle box.
B) Purina's checkerboard.
C) Gibson's visual cliff.
D) Skinner boxes.
Question 3Two-month-old Uwe's ability to tell the difference between his mother's face and the faces of other women is generally due to
A) genetic determinism.
B) everyday experience.
C) preprogrammed neural connections.
D) mythology. He's too young to do that yet.
Question 4The fact that infants are very attracted to faces and things that look like faces lends support to
A) progressive education.
B) radical behaviorism.
C) positive psychology.
D) evolutionary psychology.
Question 5Two-month-old baby Francisco is looking at some pictures with his mother Jacaranda. She notices that he seems most interested in
A) the boundaries of objects.
B) the centers of objects.
C) pictures of animals.
D) pictures of statues.