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Gibson, Eleanor Jack was born on December 7, 1910 in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William A. and Isabel (Grier) Jack.
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In the field of psychology, beginning in the 1950s, Eleanor J. Gibson nearly single-handedly developed the field of perceptual learning with a series of brilliant studies that culminated in the seminal work, Perceptual Learning and Development. An Odyssey in Learning and Perception brings together Gibson's scientific papers, including difficult-to-find or previously unpublished work, along with classic studies in perception and action. Gibson introduces each paper to show why the research was undertaken and concludes each section with comments linking the findings to later developments. A personal essay touches on the questions and concerns that guided her research.
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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.
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(Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and inte...)
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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Gibson, Eleanor Jack was born on December 7, 1910 in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William A. and Isabel (Grier) Jack.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1931; Master of Arts, Smith College, 1933; Doctor of Science (honorary), Smith College, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1938; Doctor of Science (honorary), Yale University, 1996; Doctor of Science (honorary), Rutgers University, 1973; Doctor of Science (honorary), Trinity College, 1982; Doctor of Science (honorary), Bates College, 1985; Doctor of Science (honorary), University South Carolina., 1987; Doctor of Science (honorary), Emory University, 1990; Doctor of Science (honorary), Middlebury College, 1993; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Albany, 1984; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Miami University, 1989.
Among her contributions to psychology, the most important are the study of perception in infants and toddlers. She is popularly known for the "visual cliff" experiment in which precocial animals, and crawling human infants, showed their ability to perceive depth by avoiding the deep side of a virtual cliff. According to Life magazine in 1959, the "Visual Cliff" was "a wooden table from the edge of which strong plate glass extended..Children were put on the table top and coaxed to crawl out over the glass.
But when they got to the edge of the cliff and looked down almost all of them quickly withdrew.
The visual cliff findings indicated that perception is an essentially adaptive process, or as Doctor Gibson put it, We perceive to learn, as well as learn to perceive. In 1982, she was invited to Beijing to teach Chinese psychologists about recent theories and techniques of research.
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Gibson as the 74th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with Paul East. Meehl.
(Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and inte...)
(Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and inte...)
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( In the field of psychology, beginning in the 1950s, Ele...)
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Fellow: American Psychological Association (president division 3 1977, Distinguished Scientist award 1968, G. Stanley Hall award 1970, Gold medal award 1986), American Association for the Advancement of Science (division chair 1983). Member: National Academy of Sciences, Vermont Academy of Sciences and Engineering, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society Research in Child Development (Distinguished Science Contribution award 1981), Psychonomic Society, National Academy Education, Society Experimental Psychologists (Howard Crosby Warren medal 1977), Eastern Psychological Association (president 1968), Italian Society Research in Child Development (honorary), New York Academy of Sciences (honorary), British Psychological Society (honorary), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married James J. Gibson, September 17, 1932. Children: James J., Jean Grier.