What Is Visual Cliffing?

The Visual Cliff is an apparatus created by psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk at Cornell University to investigate depth perception in human and animal species.

What is meant by visual cliff?

A visual cliff involves an apparent, but not actual drop from one surface to another, originally created to test babies' depth perception. It's created by connecting a transparent glass surface to an opaque patterned surface. The floor below has the same pattern as the opaque surface.

What does the visual cliff teach us?

The visual cliff is a test given to infants to see if they have developed depth perception. ... If it stops when it gets to the edge of the platform, looks down, and either is reluctant to cross or refuses to cross, then the child has depth perception.