Animals deprived of visual or auditory stimulation show no, little, or delayed development of those perceptual systems. Which theory of perceptual development do these facts support?

a. Constructionism
b. Nativism
c. Empiricism
d. Realism
e. None of the above


Answer is c. Empiricism (the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.)

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