BLAKEMORE AND COOPER

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To investigate how being raised in a visually restrictive environment would effect the visual brain development of cats

Question 2

Procedure

Answer 2

New born kittens raised Ina dark room for nearly 2 weeks . Kitten is placed in a dark cylinder for 5 hours a day for 5 moths, only able to see horizontal or vertical stripes , wore large collar so couldn’t see them selves . After 5 months out in to a well lit room and observes

Question 3

Results

Answer 3

Navigate way round using touch , frightened when they reached the edge of surface they were standing on.
Only saw the stripes they were in the cylinder

Question 4

Conclusion

Answer 4

Study shows that the development of the brain responds to the environment it has experienced

Question 5

Advantages of used kittens

Answer 5

Easier to control and can’t show demand characteristics or change behaviour

Question 6

Nature nurture

Answer 6

Nature - provided kittens with neurones with a preferred orientation but the restricted visual environment in which the kittens were raised in meant that nurture has a strong effect