Depth Perception

Visual Cliff
Apparatus
Vision of a Newborn
Visual Acuity
Poor acuity; poor contrast
sensitivity; limited color
vision
Improves rapidly
Adult acuity by between 6
and 12 months
Color perception
Most color distinctions
made after 3 months
Depth Perception
Eye coordination occurs at
3-5 months

Children as young as three

months are able to
perceive the visual cliff
Infants are not born with
depth perception. It must
be developed. The images
on the back of our eyes are
flat and 2-dimensional
Visual experience along
with development in the
brain lead to the
emergence of binocular
depth perception around
3-5 months of age.

How Does Your

Child Begin to
View the World?
Siyanna Ahmadu, Chloe Lassman,
Liam Fischer, Kate Decoste, and
Jasper Laca

Stages of
Language
Development
Cooing
(1-2 months)
Babbling
(4 months)
One-word stage
(12-18 months)

- Donec vehicula mauris in est

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of
logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
- Jean Piaget

Infants Possess Memory

The most dramatic evidence
comes from a series of
experiments in which 3 monthold infants were taught to make
a mobile move by kicking their
legs (Rovee-Collier, 1990).
Virtually all infants began
making some random kicks and
movement, eventually realizing
that these kicks made the
mobile move.

When some infants returned to

the experiment 1 week later,
they immediately began to kick,
indicating they remembered.