Friday, October 18, 2013

Gibson’s Affordances = A baby Hal 9000

Children are learning through interaction.  Baillargeon showed that children have an appropriate perception of the world and the physical rules that apply to it.  The Gibsons’ affordances states what an environment offers or provides for an organism; they are opportunities for action (Miller, p. 380).  As children develop new motor skills, they discover new affordances.  New affordances create new perceptions of the world.



My question for those interested in engaging, do affordances end during the infancy stage of our development or do we continue to create new affordances?


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