visual cliff - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This kind of feature names an apparatus consisting of checkerboard patterns at different heights and a glass table across which infant subjects would crawl. For 10 points each:

[10m] An experiment by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk to study the innateness of depth perception is named for a “visual” one of what features?

ANSWER: visual cliff

[10e] Gibson first used the visual cliff on some of these animals that were raised in darkness. These animals were used by John Watson to run mazes in the Kerplunk experiment and to instill fear in Little Albert.

ANSWER: rats [prompt on rodents; reject “mice”]

[10h] Gibson built on this man’s study of turtles’ poor depth perception. This man, who denied Gibson from his lab for being female, is the first namesake of an inverted-U-shaped “law” relating performance and arousal.

ANSWER: Robert Yerkes [accept Yerkes–Dodson law]

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California	Main	Y	5	16.00	60%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	17%	50%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	57%	71%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	12.50	88%	25%	13%
North	Main	Y	11	10.00	46%	27%	27%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	10.00	40%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	10.00	67%	8%	25%
UK	Main	Y	4	7.50	25%	25%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	50%	63%	38%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	13	9.23	62%	23%	8%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley E	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Stanford C	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	UCSC	10	0	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	0	10
McGill C	McMaster C	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
Toronto K	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	Toronto I	0	0	0	0
McGill A	Toronto J	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	0	0
Ottawa	Guelph B	0	10	0	10
Queen's B	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley F	10	10	0	20
USF	FSU	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF A	10	0	0	10
UF D	ERAU A	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UF E	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	Pitt B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
OSU C	CWRU C	10	10	10	30
MSU A	Pitt C	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	MSU B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
OSU B	OSU D	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
NC State	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia B	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Roanoke	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
Penn B	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
UMBC A	Georgetown B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins C	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	George Mason B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Catholic University	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame E	Maryland D	10	10	0	20
VCU A	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Lehigh B	0	0	0	0
Rowan A	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore A	Princeton A	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	WashU D	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Truman State	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
WashU C	William Woods	0	10	0	10
Macalester B	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Nebraska	Macalester A	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin	St. Thomas	10	10	0	20
Amherst B	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin B	BC A	0	10	10	20
BC B	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	BU	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Cornell-UG	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Wilson	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Brown C	Dartmouth	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	Harvard	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brown A	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Williams	MIT B	0	0	0	0
Yale B	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Melbourne B	Melbourne A	10	0	10	20
UCF B	FIU	0	0	0	0
British Columbia A	Alberta	0	0	0	0
British Columbia B	British Columbia C	0	0	0	0
British Columbia D	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Simon Fraser	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	Alberta B	0	10	0	10
Arizona State A	Tulsa	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Ohio	Northwestern B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern A	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Texas A	UTD B	10	10	0	20
Texas B	UTD A	10	10	0	20
McGill D	UCO	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Alabama B	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State A	Huntsville A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Huntsville B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt B	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
LSE A	Birmingham A	0	10	10	20
Bristol B	Cambridge D	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Durham B	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Sheffield A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
City St George's A	Imperial C	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Manchester A	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Lancaster A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton B	ESF	0	10	0	10
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Syracuse	0	0	0	0