In the visual cliff experiment by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk,most babies encouraged to crawl onto the deep side of the visual cliff would:
A)crawl onto the cliff side.
B)not crawl onto the cliff side.
C)crawl onto the cliff side only when their mothers called them.
D)not crawl onto the cliff side,but showed significant increases in heart rate-indicating anxiety.

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In the visual cliff experiment, most babies would not crawl onto the cliff side, indicating that they have developed depth perception and are able to distinguish heights. The experiment showed that babies as young as 6 to 14 months old were able to perceive depth and that this ability to perceive depth is innate and not learned. Some babies showed signs of anxiety when near the edge, but this did not necessarily lead to crawling onto the cliff side.

In the Visual Cliff Experiment by Eleanor Gibson and Richard