Eleanor Gibson's Studies of the Responses of Visually Inexperienced Animals

question 41

Multiple Choice

Eleanor Gibson's studies of the responses of visually inexperienced animals and human infants to the "visual cliff" seem to

• A) support Helmholtz's nativist perceptual theory.
• B) refute Helmholtz's trichromatic theory.
• C) disconfirm aspects of Helmholtz's empiricist perceptual theory.
• D) support Helmholtz's theory of unconscious inference.

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