| Description |
1 online resource (147 p.) |
| Series |
Resources for Ecological Psychology Ser |
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Resources for Ecological Psychology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Outline of the Book -- 1 The Mechanistic Foundation of Psychology -- The Mechanization of the Inanimate World in a Nutshell -- The Machine Metaphor -- The Two-Worlds Hypothesis -- Descartes -- Descartes' Theory of Perception -- Completing the Mechanization of the Worldview -- The Romantic Period -- Blumenbach and the Theory of Epigenesis -- The Significance of the Romantic Period -- The Cognitive Perspective -- Appraisal and Emotions |
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Toward an Ecological Alternative -- 2 Gibson's Ecological Program -- Gibson's Ecological Approach -- An Ambitious Program -- The Meaningful Environment -- Information and Direct Perception -- Perception as an Activity of a Body in an Environment -- Toward an Ecological Psychology -- Perception, Memory, and Other Modes of Nonperceptual Awareness -- Social Phenomena and the Cultural Environment -- An Unfinished Program -- 3 Affordances, Invitations, and Emotions -- Gibson's Critique of Gestalt Psychology -- Animals Are Always Affectively Engaged With the Environment |
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The Concept of Inviting Affordances -- When Do Affordances Invite? -- A Complementary Theory of Emotions -- Toward an Affective Gibsonian Account -- 4 A Plea for Developmental History -- Ecological Approach to Infant Development -- Miller's Insights -- The Breakaway From Freud's Psychoanalysis -- Psychobiographies -- Abundant Childhood Injuries -- The Effects On Adult Emotional Life -- Fear -- False Hope -- Anger -- Preparing the Ideas for Integration -- 5 Emotions and the (Mis)perception of Affordances -- Some Debates About the Ontology of Affordances |
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Developmental History and (The Perception Of) Affordances -- Misperceiving Affordances -- An Ecological Account of Misperception -- The Lived Environment -- Do We Need the Concept of Affordances? -- 6 Developmental Systems Theory: Bridging the Gap -- A Brief History of Developmental Systems Thinking -- Gottlieb's Probabilistic Epigenesis -- Oyama's Relational Conception of Information -- Can Developmental Systems Theory Bridge the Gap? -- Miller's Perspective and Developmental Systems Theory -- Relational Information Or How the Cellar Theory Can Be Dispensed With |
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Dewey's Theory of Emotions and the Relational Concept of Information -- Invitations and Developmental Systems Thinking -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Mutualism And/or Realism -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Gibson, James J. (James Jerome), 1904-1979
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| SUBJECT |
Gibson, James J. (James Jerome), 1904-1979. fast (OCoLC)fst01760044 |
| Subject |
Environmental psychology
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Environmental psychology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000588224 |
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100058822X |
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