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Gibson’s theory on perceptual development

Gibson’s theory on perceptual development . By Amanda and marghali. Gibson's theory of perceptual development is about how an infant perceives its surroundings. Active exploration.

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Gibson’s theory on perceptual development

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  1. Gibson’s theory on perceptual development By Amanda and marghali

  2. Gibson's theory of perceptual development is about how an infant perceives its surroundings

  3. Active exploration Gibson tells us that when an infant is awake it is continuously monitoring their environment and actively searches for information about its environment and about itself in the environment. Infants use this information to guide their actions in the changing world. Any new info/abilities acquired are gained through experiences over time. These activities are what Gibson calls perception

  4. Affordances • - a quality of an object, that allows an individual to perform an action e.g. If a surface of land in perceived by the animal as nearly horizontal (instead of slanted), nearly flat (instead of convex or concave), having sufficient length and width (in relation to the size of the animal), and is rigid(can hold the weight of the animal),then the surface affords support. since it is perceived as a surface of support, it can be considered ‘stand-on-able’ , and therefore ‘walk on_ able and run over able . It is not sink in to able like a surface of water or a swamp would be for a heavy land dwelling animals . For a different animal ,such as a water bug the affordance of support would be different if the surface is water .

  5. Differentiations • The different between things in the environment. • E.g through differentiation, children learn to perceive differences like that rabbits are different from cats.

  6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPaBcT1KdY

  7. Bibliography 5th edition psychology, units 1&2 by John Grivas

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