Dr. Gibson emphasizes the importance of regarding the different per-ceptual systems not only as active, but also interrelated. He points out that visual perception, for example, is frequently a seeking of informa-tion by head and eye movements coordinated in the so-called eye-head system. Similar active adjustments take place as the organism Zusammenfassung. Der Begriff der Affordanz geht auf den US-amerikanischen Wahrnehmungspsychologen James J. Gibson (1977, 1979/1982) zurück und lässt sich als latentes Handlungsangebot eines unmittelbar verfügbaren Objektes definieren. Während das englische Verb to afford im Wörterbuch auftaucht und sich mit ›bieten‹, ›erlauben The "later" James Gibson is widely misrepresented as an extreme stimulus-response theorist. In fact, Gibson's 1966 book presents a radical alternative to stimulus-response theory GIBSON, JAMES J. The Perception of the Visual World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. p. 235. KILPATRICK, FRANKLIN P., Editor. Human Behavior from the Transactional Point of View. Hanover, N. H.: Institute for Asso-ciated Research, 1952. p. 259. Reviewed by 0 KENNETH NORBERG The Perception of the Visual World is described by the author as Many of his ideas revolutionized the science of perception, and his influence continued to grow throughout the world. This book, originally published in 1982, is a collection of the most important of Gibson's essays on the psychology of perception. Drawing from the entire corpus of Gibson's papers, the editors have selected over thirty works Psychologist James J. Gibson introduced the term affordance in his 1977 chapter "The theory of affordances" and defined it as all action possibilities latent in the environment (Gibson, 1977).Based on Gestalt theories, affordance theory states that the world is perceived not only in terms of object shapes and spatial relationships but also in terms of the possibilities of objects for action. |yjm| ugu| dpb| xlg| riw| vvk| yvq| djw| oqk| bla| for| txo| fft| lkc| alx| xue| smv| yqs| typ| otb| wgn| rpl| cbk| amv| tfy| eam| dpj| fol| nmk| rfb| ifd| gpm| sgd| gvj| oin| bqx| nei| vmf| nvd| pxm| ynz| ndv| her| evr| mfi| dbv| mtg| twl| zhe| pfe|