Studies of visual depth perception: An effect of early experience on chicks on a visual cliff.
- 1 February 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 57 (1), 94-96
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0041529
Abstract
The effect of rearing chicks in 3 different physical environments was investigated. After the 1st 35 hr of neonatal life in these environments, each chick was tested singly on a visual cliff. Significant x 2s'' were found for direction of descent between shallow and deep reared (p<.025), and normal and deep reared (p<.001). It may be concluded from these observations that the "choice" behavior of a chick on the centerboard of a visual cliff is in part a function of the parameters of the prior-to-testing environment.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Studies of Visual Depth Perception: IV. Comparisons of Texture Densities on a Visual Cliff by ChicksPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1962
- Visual Depth Perception of a 10-Month-Old Monocular Human InfantScience, 1962