The Work of James Jerome Gibson - 1073 Words

I. Brief biography1 James Jerome Gibson was born on January 27, 1904, in McConnelsville, Ohio, U.S. and died on December 11, 1979. He was an experimental psychologist whose work focused primarily on visual perception. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University in 1928 and joined the faculty of Smith College. During World War II he served in the Army Air Forces (1942–46). In the Army, Gibson developed tests used to screen potential pilots. In doing so, he made the observation that pilots orient themselves according to the characteristics of the ground surface rather than through kinesthetic senses (Hochberg, 1994). After the war he returned to Smith College before moving to Cornell University in 1949. He retired in 1972†¦show more content†¦From such a radical conception of visual perception, Gibson (1979) expanded and evolved his theory of visual perception into the theory of information pickup by saying, â€Å"when vision is thought of as a perceptual system instead of as a channel for inputs for the brain, a new theory of perception considered as information pickup becomes possible† (p. 262). According to this information pickup theory, information does not have to be stored in memory because it is always available. What he argued, as opposed to the information processing view of cognition, is that information is not something that has to be processed, rather one that is provided and structured invariant within the environment to be used in activities. As such, his direct perception implies a new theory of cognition that is offered as a substitute for the theory of past exper ience, memory, and mental images. Such his claim and notion of perception and cognition have a profound impact on the field of psychology in a new way to describe human thinking. Specifically, his theory, albeit that he did not mention explicitly throughout his works, has underpinned the tenet of ecological psychology,Show MoreRelatedSolution Manual, Test Bank and Instructor Manuals34836 Words   |  140 PagesReporting for Decision Making, 4th Edition_Jacqueline Birt, Keryn Chalmers, Albie Brooks, Suzy Byrne, Judy Oliver (ISM+TB) Accounting Concepts and Applications, 10th Edition_W. Steve Albrecht, James D. Stice, Earl K. Stice, Monte R. Swain (SM+IM) Accounting Concepts and Applications, 11th Edition_W. Steve Albrecht, James D. Stice, Earl K. Stice, Monte R. Swain (SM+IM ) Accounting Concepts, International Edition, 11th Edition_James D. Stice, Earl K. Stice, W. Steve Albrecht, Monte R. 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