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9780805839494

Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805839494

  • ISBN10:

    0805839496

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-06-01
  • Publisher: Psychology Pres

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Summary

Perceiving the Affordancesis 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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Growing up in the Heartland
1(10)
Becoming Psychologists
11(13)
Teaching and Life at Smith College
24(9)
World War II
33(15)
Back to Civilization (Academic Style)
48(10)
High Above Cayuga's Waters
58(12)
Visiting in Academe
70(8)
Midlife Without Crises
78(10)
The Decade of the Books
88(15)
The Seer of Ithaca
103(10)
Going It Alone
113(7)
Life After the Lab
120(13)
Postscript 133(4)
References 137(6)
Index 143

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