The newest perspective as to why infants refuse to crawl across the visual cliff is because infants ______.
A) perceive that they are unable to successfully navigate the drop
B) are afraid of heights
C) know it is an unnatural situation
D) are unwilling to expend the energy to move that far

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Research has shown that infants refuse to crawl across the visual cliff not because they are afraid of heights or unwilling to expend energy, but because they perceive that they are unable to successfully navigate the drop. As the visual cliff experiment involves an artificially created situation, it is not likely that infants are avoiding the cliff due to a sense of it being unnatural.

The Newest Perspective as to Why Infants Refuse to Crawl