American psychologist known for pioneering research on perceptual development in infants.
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Death PlaceColumbia, South Carolina 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionWith Richard Walk, designed the 1960 visual cliff apparatus demonstrating that human infants perceive depth and avoid an apparent drop by the time they can crawl. 2 Notable WorkVisual cliff experiment; perceptual learning and differentiation theory 1 Connections
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Her Visual Cliff studies of perception and affordances are foundational to ecological psychology.
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Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants.
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Visual cliff, perceptual learning, differentiation theory, enrichment of embedded structures
Introduction
was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants
In Branch: Developmental Psychology, Infobox: fields
Psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, experimental psychology, ecological psychology
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The researchers found that 27 of the infants crawled over to their mother on the "shallow" side without any problems.
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