Marcus wants to know whether or not his daughter, Rebekah, can perceive different distances and depths. He wants to fashion a simple experiment to make this conclusion. Based on the work of Gibson and Walk, what sort of contraption could he build to test Rebekah's depth perception?
a. a visual cliff
b. an operant chamber
c. a Skinner box
d. a galvanic skin sensor
a
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