Eleanor J. Gibson

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Eleanor J. Gibson

Psychology

#400

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#555

Historical Rank

#263

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According to Wikipedia, Eleanor Jack Gibson was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. Gibson began her career at Smith College as an instructor in 1932, publishing her first works on research conducted as an undergraduate student. Gibson was able to circumvent the many obstacles she faced due to the Great Depression and gender discrimination, by finding research opportunities that she could meld with her own interests. Gibson, with her husband James J. Gibson, created the Gibsonian ecological theory of development, which emphasized how important perception was because it allows humans to adapt to their environments. Perhaps her most well-known contribution to psychology was the "visual cliff," which studied depth perception in both human and animal species, leading to a new understanding of perceptual development in infants. Gibson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, the National Academy of Education in 1972, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977. In 1992, she was awarded the National Medal of Science.

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Eleanor J. Gibson's Published Works

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Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969) (2561)
Exploratory behavior in the development of perceiving, acting, and the acquiring of knowledge. (1988) (984)
Perceptual learning; differentiation or enrichment? (1955) (981)
An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development (2000) (776)
The "visual cliff". (1960) (623)
The Psychology of Reading (1977) (543)
The development of perception (1983) (420)
A developmental study of the discrimination of letter-like forms. (1962) (416)
Learning to read (1965) (369)
A comparative and analytical study of visual depth perception. (1961) (314)
A systematic application of the concepts of generalization and differentiation to verbal learning (1940) (305)
Motion parallax as a determinant of perceived depth. (1959) (257)
Development of knowledge of visual-tactual affordances of substance. (1984) (246)
Improvement in perceptual judgments as a function of controlled practice or training. (1953) (246)
The role of grapheme-phoneme correspondence in the perception of words. (1962) (235)
Contemporary approaches to cognition (1958) (233)
The effect of prolonged exposure to visually presented patterns on learning to discriminate them. (1956) (213)
Perceptual Learning in Development: Some Basic Concepts (2000) (203)
Crawling versus walking infants' perception of affordances for locomotion over sloping surfaces. (1993) (194)
Detection of the traversability of surfaces by crawling and walking infants. (1987) (187)
Continuous perspective transformations and the perception of rigid motion. (1957) (173)
Use of Central and Peripheral Optical Flow in Stance and Locomotion in Young Walkers (1987) (153)
Infants' perception of similarity between live people and their photographs. (1977) (129)
Perception of Invariants by Five-Month-Old Infants: Differentiation of Two Types of Motion. (1978) (125)
An Odyssey in Learning and Perception (1991) (119)
Has Psychology a Future? (1994) (117)
Perceptual learning and the theory of word perception (1971) (117)
Going Somewhere: An Ecological and Experimental Approach to Development of Mobility (1989) (116)
Gibson, James J. (2006) (112)
Utilization of spelling patterns by deaf and hearing subjects (1971) (111)
The effect of training on absolute estimation of distance over the ground. (1954) (104)
Development of perception of affordances. (1993) (102)
Behavior of light- and dark-reared rats on a visual cliff. (1957) (98)
A study of the development of grapheme-phoneme correspondences (1963) (94)
The ontogeny of reading. (1970) (93)
Perception and its development: A tribute to Eleanor J. Gibson (1979) (92)
Where Is the Information for Affordances? (2000) (88)
The effect of prior training with a scale of distance on absolute and relative judgments of distance over ground. (1955) (80)
Distance judgment by the method of fractionation. (1955) (70)
Retroactive inhibition as a function of degree of generalization between tasks. (1941) (69)
Perception of inflections in brief visual presentations of words (1971) (68)
Intra-list generalization as a factor in verbal learning. (1942) (68)
The role of shock in reinforcement. (1952) (58)
An ecological psychologist's prolegomena for perceptual development: A functional approach. (1997) (58)
COMPARISON OF MEANINGFULNESS AND PRONUNCIABILITY AS GROUPING PRINCIPLES IN THE PERCEPTION AND RETENTION OF VERBAL MATERIAL. (1964) (57)
Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists (2001) (54)
The effect of prolonged exposure to visual patterns on learning to discriminate similar and different patterns. (1958) (54)
Development of the Perception of Invariants: Substance and Shape (1979) (52)
The World Is So Full of a Number of Things: On Specification and Perceptual Learning (2003) (51)
What does infant perception tell us about theories of perception? (1987) (49)
The effect of imposed optical flow on guided locomotion in young walkers (1989) (48)
Sensory generalization with voluntary reactions. (1939) (40)
The development of perception as an adaptive process. (1970) (39)
A developmental study of the effects of visual and auditory interference on a visual scanning task (1966) (38)
Enhancement and deprivation of visual stimulation during rearing as factors in visual discrimination learning. (1959) (37)
A developmental study of visual search behavior (1966) (36)
How to think about perceptual learning: Twenty-five years later. (1992) (33)
Development of perception: discrimination of depth compared with discrimination of graphic symbols. (1963) (32)
Detection of Elasticity as an Invariant Property of Objects by Young Infants (1980) (27)
Perceptual learning. (1963) (27)
Chapter 1 - Are We Automata? (1995) (27)
The effectiveness of prolonged exposure to cutouts vs. painted patterns for facilitation of discrimination. (1959) (24)
What is learned in perceptual learning? A reply to Professor Postman. (1955) (24)
What does infant perception tell us about theories of perception (1987) (22)
Further experiments on prolonged exposure to visual forms: the effects of single stimuli and prior reinforcement. (1958) (22)
A re-examination of generalization. (1959) (21)
: Learning to Perceive and Perceiving to Learn (2004) (21)
PERCEPTUAL LEARNING IN EDUCATIONAL SITUATIONS. (1966) (16)
The effect of orthographic structure on letter search (1972) (16)
The perceived self: Ontogenesis of the perceived self (1994) (16)
Retention and the Interpolated Task (1934) (12)
Experimental studies of thought and reasoning. (1937) (12)
What Psychology Is About: Ruminations of an Opinionated Aged Psychologist (2003) (8)
ON THE PERCEPTION OF WORDS. (1964) (8)
Perceiving affordances of slopes: The ups and downs of toddlers' locomotion (1990) (8)
The Perceived Self in Infancy (1992) (8)
A developmental study of visual search behavior (1966) (7)
Infant perception of gestural contrasts: prerequisites for the acquisition of a visually specified language (1986) (7)
Confusion matrices for graphic patterns obtained with a latency measure: A program of basic and applied research (1968) (7)
A developmental study of feature-processing strategies in letter discrimination (1967) (6)
Commentary on Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy (2000) (5)
Introduction: Visually Controlled Locomotion and Orientation (1998) (3)
Perception of Invariance Over Perspective Transformations in Five Month Old Infants. (1977) (3)
Psychology: A Study of a Science: Study 1. Conceptual and Systematic. Vol. 2. General Systematic Formulations, Learning, and Special Processes (1961) (2)
The Relationship Between Perceptual Development and the Acquisition of Reading Skill. Final Report. (1971) (2)
Discovering the Affordances of Surfaces of Support. (1997) (2)
Walking Off a Cliff (1996) (1)
The Relationship Between Perceptual Development and the Acquisition of Reading Skill. Appendix to Final Report. (1972) (1)
Whosoever hath, to him shall be given (1985) (1)
Perceptual phenomena and perceptual meanings in infants and young children. (1983) (1)
Infants' perception of the traversibility of surfaces (1984) (1)
EPAM to EGO: A Cognitive Journey (1999) (1)
Perceptual Aspects of the Reading Process and Its Development (1978) (1)
Association and differentiation in perceptual learning (1961) (1)
The Proper Study of Psychology (1997) (1)
The Ecological Approach to Perception and its Significance for Developmental Psychology (1981) (1)
Back to Civilization (Academic Style) (2001) (0)
EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT OF ACTING , AND THE KNOWLEDGE * BEHAVIOR IN THE PERCEIVING , ACQUIRING OF (2002) (0)
New matrons: a political move or a positive step for nursing? (2001) (0)
Education and the Psychology of Thinking. (1937) (0)
AN INCREASE IN SPECIFICITY OF DISCRIMINATION OF THE STIMULUS (2007) (0)
Perceptual Development (1963) (0)
Response : How Children Learn to Read (1965) (0)
Behavior of Light- and Dark-Reared Rats on a Visual Cliff (1957) (0)

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