CLIFF!
MEGI BRAHO
4TH HOUR
5/7/2019
E.J. GIBSON
Monocular Cues
Relative size and overlap
Binocular Cues
Retinal disparity
Gibson described their visual cliff as a large sheet of heavy plexiglass which supported a foot or more off the floor.
A material is laid on the floor below the glass, creating the visual illusion perception while still ensuring the safety of
infants.
The perception of the visual cliff was a matter of visual maturity. Babies less than 8 months would not be able to see
the cliff.
INFANT TEST
• A child is placed on one end of the platform and the caregiver stands on the
other side of the clear surface. If the child had developed depth perception,
he or she would be able to see the visual cliff and would refuse to crawl.
• The infants who lacked depth perception would crawl happily to their
caregivers without noticing anything.
• Infants learn gain the experience of being afraid of heights when they fall
and get hurt.
IMPACT
• If you wanted to find out at what point in the development process animals or
people are able to perceive depth:
• Put them on the edge of the visual cliff and see if they would fall off.
• There is no actual cliff, it just appears like that to see their depth perception
• Gibson believed that the depth perception and the avoidance of a drop –off
appear automatically as part of our original biological equipment.