This learning material is a 2 ½ minute YouTube video featuring Joseph Campos and footage of the foundational Visual Cliff experiment often taught in Introductory and Developmental Psychology classes. This concept encompasses learning, depth perception, trust, facial expressions, social referencing, and several other psychological concepts.
Type of Material:
Presentation (video)
Recommended Uses:
• The video could be used for in class assignments, individual viewing by students, and lecture material. It provides a short but highly effective demonstration of a specific experimental procedure widely known in the field of psychology.
• The material is particularly useful for students studying Introduction to Psychology, Infant Development, Sensation & Perception, and Social Psychology. Of particular interest is the ability to recognize the impact of emotion on infant behavior.
Technical Requirements:
Two reviewers successfully accessed and viewed the video using Internet Explorer, Google Chrome (39.0), and Mozilla Firefox.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
• The YouTube video demonstrates the effect of non-verbal emotion cues with 8- to 12-month-old infants via the Visual Cliff demonstration.
Featuring several babies and their mothers, the videos provide a strong visual illustration of a concept that might otherwise be challenging to grasp.
Target Student Population:
• This video is primarily useful for individuals unfamiliar with lower level concepts in introductory and developmental psychology. However, any students studying Introduction to Psychology from high school to college students in more advanced classes would benefit from this presentation.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
• Only basic computer navigation skills would be needed to successfully use this site. The video plays inside of the YouTube player and includes closed captioning options.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
• The succinct, factual representation and demonstration of an actual Visual Cliff experiment, along with the detailed explanation of the procedure by Joseph Campos, are the best features of this brief video. It provides an excellent overview of the concept and does a great job of connecting the various important concepts relayed in this experiment (e.g., learning, depth perception, trust, facial expressions, social referencing).
• The traditional visual cliff shows developmental effects on infant perception. This video adds how mothers’ nonverbal emotion also affects infant behavior.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
• The video format provides an easy means for use in-class, independently, and across different classes.
• The video clearly shows the visual cliff with several infants and parents along with Dr. Joseph Campos who explains the key issue. The clarity and brevity make it an easy “add” when talking about development or emotions.
Concerns:
None.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
• This is a short, to-the-point YouTube video that plays on multiple formats.
• In standard YouTube options, this video links automatically to other related topics as well as other related presentations by the speaker. The content easily can be shared via weblink (URL) and numerous other social sharing options. It further includes embedded closed captioning that shows approximately 80% accuracy, with major errors occurring towards the end of the 2-minute mark of the video.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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