The majority of the crawling infants in the Gibson and Walk study of depth perception using a visual cliff
A) demonstrated no fear of crawling over the deep side.
B) demonstrated depth perception.
C) would crawl over the deep side when called by their mothers.
D) could not discriminate the shallow side from the deep side.

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The majority of the crawling infants in the Gibson and Walk study of depth perception using a visual cliff demonstrated depth perception. This was observed as they avoided crawling over the deep side of the visual cliff, indicating that they could perceive the difference in depth between the shallow and deep sides. Some infants showed no fear of crawling over the deep side, but they were in the minority.

The Majority of the Crawling Infants in the Gibson and Walk