James Jerome Gibson (1904–1979) was an American psychologist who developed ecological psychology and the theory of affordances—the idea that animals perceive not abstract qualities of objects but their functional possibilities for action. His work The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception is a classic.
Founded ecological psychology; developed affordance theory which transformed perception research.
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