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Ecological Psychology: Healing the Split between Planet and Self » Read Now
by Deborah Du Nann Winter. 314 pgs.

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Deborah Du Nann Winter is a professor of psychology at Whitman College.
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Persons, Situations, and Emotions: An Ecological Approach » Read Now
by Hermann Brandstatter, Andrzej Eliasz. 225 pgs.

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This book represents a social psychological approach to the study of emotion. The contributors present empirical data using the 'time sampling' or 'experience sampling' technique developed by Brandstätter. This technique allows researchers to gain direct access to the phenomenological experiences of...
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This book represents a social psychological approach to the study of emotion. The contributors present empirical data using the 'time sampling' or 'experience sampling' technique developed by Brandstätter. This technique allows researchers to gain direct access to the phenomenological experiences of subjects without the distorting effects of recall. Populations studied include bank employees, factory workers, housewives, and the unemployed.
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An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development » Read Now
by Eleanor J. Gibson, Anne D. Pick. 237 pgs.

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The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their...
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The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their environments and extract information from them before language is available. The ecological approach to perceiving-defined as "a theory about perceiving by active creatures who look and listen and move around" was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last book in 1979. Until now, no comprehensive theoretical statement of ecological development has been published since Eleanor Gibson's Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969). In An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, distinguished experimental psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick provide a unique theoretical framework for the ecological approach to understanding perceptual learning and development. Perception, in accordance with James Gibson's views, entails a reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her environment: the environment provides resources and opportunities for the person, and the person gets information from and acts on the environment. The concept of affordance is central to this idea; the person acts on what the environment affords, as it is appropriate. This extraordinary volume covers the development of perception in detail from birth through toddlerhood, beginning with the development of communication, going on to perceiving and acting on objects, and then to locomotion. It is more than a presentation of facts about perception as it develops. It outlines the ecological approach and shows how it underlies "higher" cognitive processes, such as concept formation, as well as discovery of the basic affordances of the environment. This impressive work should serve as the capstone for Eleanor J. Gibson's distinguished career as a developmental and experimental psychologist.
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Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Applied and Ecological Perspectives » Read Now
by Robert R. Hoffman, David S. Palermo. 545 pgs.

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...herald the "arrival" of ecological psychology see chapters by Fowler...example, a new journal, Ecological Psychology , has begun publication...viewpoints, which dovetail...
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Event Cognition: An Ecological Perspective » Read Now
by Viki J. McCabe, Gerald J. Balzano. 302 pgs.

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...Perspective RESOURCES FOR ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Robert E. Shaw, William...cognition. Resources for ecological psychology Includes bibliographies...5 4 3 2 1 Resources for...
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Encountering the World: Toward an Ecological Psychology » Read Now
by Edward S. Reed. 216 pgs.

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Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological psychology focuses on the "human niche" and our uniquely evolved modes of action and interaction. Rejecting both mechanistic...
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Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological psychology focuses on the "human niche" and our uniquely evolved modes of action and interaction. Rejecting both mechanistic cognitive science and reductionistic neuroscience, the author offers a new psychology that combines ecological and experimental methods to help us better understand the ways in which people and animals make their way through the world. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of ecological psychology and a unique synthesis of the work of Darwin, neural Darwinism, and modern ecologists with James Gibson's approach to perception. The author presents detailed discussions on communication, sociality, cognition, and language - topics often overlooked by ecological psychologists. Other issues covered include ecological approaches to animal behaviour, neural mechanisms, perception, action, and interaction. Provocative and controversial, Encountering the World makes a significant contribution to the debate over the nature of psychology.
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Applied Ecological Psychology for Schools within Communities: Assessment and Intervention » Read Now
by Jody L. Swartz, William E. Martin. 241 pgs.

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...Applied Ecological Psychology for Schools Within Communities...Assessment and Intervention Applied Ecological Psychology for Schools Within...
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The State of Ecological Psychology, in Ecological Psychology » Read Now
by Claire Michaels, Peter Beek. 20 pgs.

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...PRESENTATION I The State of Ecological Psychology Claire Michaels and...we discuss the state of ecological psychology, broadly defined as the...development. The state of...
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Toward an Ecological Psychology, in Re-vision » Read Now
by William Keepin. 11 pgs.

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...Toward An Ecological Psychology William Keepin...science that might be called ecological psychology or ecopsychology , a...have been considered in psychology before but not...
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Perceiving Object Width by Grasping, in Ecological Psychology » Read Now
by Tin-Cheung Chan, Claudia Carello, M. T. Turvey. 35 pgs.

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...Two examples of ecological analyses of haptically...in an introductory psychology course volunteered...is reachable". Ecological Psychology , 1, 27-54. Clark...extent by...
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Heideggerian Meditations on an Alternative Ontology for Ecological Psychology: A Response to Turvey's (1992) Proposal, in Ecological Psychology » Read Now
by Endre Kadar, Judith Effken. 54 pgs.

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