An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development

by Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118251
• ISBN13: 9780195118254
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 5.9"