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S/PS/19. DISCUSS THE CONTRIBUTION OF GIBSON'S ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PERCEPTION IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

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2003
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This paper is rooted in the perception controversy born towards the latter end of World War II, when the dominant view - resting as it did upon the rather vague assumption that the brain was responsible for reconstructing coherent and contiguous experience from reduced sensory information - was challenged by a revisionary conceptual framework forwarded by J J Gibson called in which the usual assumed mechanisms reducing content exchanged between mind and world are dispensed with in favour of unusual but crucial notions of affordances and direct perception. We examine these and other fundamental notions (eg invariant information, optic arrays) within Gibson's theory in the light of the experimental record, before considering the benefits and pitfalls of evolutionary framework whence it rose. Finally, we consider the overall contribution of Gibson's paradigm to perception research, with considerations for its improvement.

 

KEYWORDS: discuss, contribution, gibson, ecological, approach, perception, cognitive, psychology,

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