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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