Marcus Wants to Know Whether or Not His Daughter, Rebekah

question 128

Multiple Choice

Marcus wants to know whether or not his daughter, Rebekah, can perceive different distances and depths. He wants to fashion a simple experiment to make this conclusion. Based on the work of Gibson and Walk, what sort of contraption could he build to test Rebekah's depth perception?

• A) ​a visual cliff
• B) ​an operant chamber
• C) ​a Skinner box
• D) ​a galvanic skin sensor

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