Duration of early visual experience and visual cliff behavior of chicks.
Visual cliff behavior was studied in 120 chicks as a function of 22, 46, 70, 94, or 118 hr of rearing in a deep or shallow environment. Preference for the deep side of the visual cliff increased directly with duration of depth-rearing but was uninfluenced at any duration of shallow-rearing. Although qualitative differences existed in the behaviors of those shallow- and deep-reared chicks which crossed the cliff, the loss of depth avoidance by the latter group appeared to be specific to the rearing and testing apparatus.
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D003867:Depth Perception; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004777:Environment; D011930:Reaction Time; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception