Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

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 theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented theory of perception. This is the story of their lives together and how each came to make particular contributions. This book is of interest to people who study perception, perceptual development, infancy, developmental psychology, and the history of psychology.

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Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

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 theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented theory of perception. This is the story of their lives together and how each came to make particular contributions. This book is of interest to people who study perception, perceptual development, infancy, developmental psychology, and the history of psychology.

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Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

by Eleanor J. Gibson
Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

by Eleanor J. Gibson

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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 theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented theory of perception. This is the story of their lives together and how each came to make particular contributions. This book is of interest to people who study perception, perceptual development, infancy, developmental psychology, and the history of psychology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135644437
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/01/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 156
File size: 969 KB

About the Author

Eleanor J. Gibson

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Growing up in the Heartland. Becoming Psychologists. Teaching and Life at Smith College. World War II. Back to Civilization (Academic Style). High Above Cayuga's Waters. Visiting in Academe. Midlife Without Crises. The Decade of the Books. The Seer of Ithaca. Going It Alone. Life After the Lab.

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