Eleanor J Gibson: 2 books
by Eleanor J. Gibson, Anne D. Pick
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their environments...
Perceiving the Affordances
A Portrait of Two Psychologists
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual...