Research Catalog

Title

An ecological approach to perceptual learning and development / Eleanor J. Gibson, Anne D. Pick.

Author

Gibson, Eleanor J.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Pick, Anne D.

Description

vi, 238 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "In An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, experimental psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick provide a theoretical framework for the ecological approach to understanding perceptual learning and development. Perception, in accordance with James Gibson's views, entails a reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her environment: The environment provides resources and opportunities for the person, and the person gets information from and acts on the environment.
• The concept of affordance is central to this idea; the person acts on what the environment affords, as it is appropriate."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Perception in infants
• Perceptual learning
• Infant psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Historical Perspectives and Present-Day Confrontations -- 2. An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Development -- 3. Studying Perceptual Development in Preverbal Infants: Tasks, Methods, and Motivation -- 4. Development and Learning in Infancy -- 5. What Infants Learn About: Communication -- 6. What Infants Learn About: Interaction with Objects -- 7. What Infants Learn About: Locomotion and the Spatial Layout -- 8. The Learning Process in Infancy: Facts and Theory -- 9. Hallmarks of Human Behavior -- 10. The Role of Perception in Development beyond Infancy.

ISBN

0195118251 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99028267

OCLC

• 224676470
• ocn224676470
• SCSB-3927147

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Columbia University Libraries