Note: the intended full question is:
"What result can be expected when a five month old is placed on a visual cliff structure with part of its floor as a checkerboard pattern beside clear plastic that allows the infant to see down a couple of feet to another floor with checkerboard pattern and her mother calls her to come across it."
This "Visual Cliff" is the name of a psychology experiment testing depth perception. The researchers showed that the majority of young babies would cry because they believed the 'shallow' side was safer and believed they could not cross the 'deep' side to get to their mothers, despite their urge and need to crawl to mom.
Many would act normal
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