Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

by Eleanor J. Gibson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805839496
• ISBN13: 9780805839494
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"