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Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development.

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 en...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibson, Eleanor J.
Otros Autores: Pick, Anne D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 creatures who look and listen and move around""--Was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last bo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (473 pages)
ISBN:9780195347395
0195347390