"The human young must learn to perceive these……" — James J. Gibson
"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival."
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11 Quotes by James J. Gibson
James J. Gibson has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as…
- The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
- The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
- Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
- Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape,…
- The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the…
- I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead,…
- A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
- There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and…
- The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.