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An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development

An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development

Gibson, Eleanor J.
Pick, Anne D.

Paperback

Child PsychologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0195165497
ISBN13: 9780195165494
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 15 2003
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
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 and extract information from them before language is available. The ecological approach to perceiving-defined as a theory about perceiving by active creatures who look and listen and move around-was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last book in 1979. Until now, no comprehensive theoretical statement of ecological development has been published since Eleanor Gibson's Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969).

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