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Witherington, David C.; Campos, Joseph J.; Anderson, David I.; Lejeune, Laure; Seah, Eileen – Infancy, 2005
Work with infants on the "visual cliff" links avoidance of drop-offs to experience with self-produced locomotion. Adolph's (2002) research on infants' perception of slope and gap traversability suggests that learning to avoid falling down is highly specific to the postural context in which it occurs. Infants, for example, who have…
Descriptors: Infants, Physical Activities, Child Development, Infant Behavior