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Eleanor Gibson

Eleanor Gibson. The Visual Cliff Experiment. Gibson. Eleanor J. Gibson is known for being one of the first people to devote time to studying perception in very young children like infants and toddlers.

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Eleanor Gibson

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  1. Eleanor Gibson The Visual Cliff Experiment

  2. Gibson • Eleanor J. Gibson is known for being one of the first people to devote time to studying perception in very young children like infants and toddlers. • She came up with the "visual cliff" experiment that helped determine that infants can actually perceive depth. • Initial study done with dark-reared rats, later with 36 crawling babies on the cliff.

  3. Cont. • When Gibson finally had a lab of her own, she set about doing the research she had called for in her book, investigating infant’s differentiation of the rigidity or flexibility of real objects and their perception of the affordances of surfaces, such as a rigid versus a deforming walkway. • In 2000, she reviewed the field again, taking an even more explicitly ecological perspective in Perceptual Learning and Development: An Ecological Approach. • Despite the delay in her career, Gibson received much recognition for her accomplishments, most notably the National Medal of Science in 1992, which is rarely awarded to psychologists.

  4. References Gibson, E. J., & Walk, R. D. (1960). The "visual cliff." Scientific American, 202, 67-71. Gibson, E. J. (1969). Principles of perceptual learning and development. New York: Meredith Corporation. Gibson, E. J, & Levin, H. (1975). Psychology of reading. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Gibson, E. J. (1991). An odyssey in learning and perception. Cambridge: MIT Press. Gibson, E. J. & Pick, A. D. (2000). Perceptual learning and development: An ecological approach to perceptual learning and development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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