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About Dr. Eleanor Grier Gibson, Ph.D.
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Scientists, partners, parents, mentors
Perceiving the affordances
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Eleanor Gibson
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Record-Journal - 2003-01-05
Text: ... St.. CT 06479. Psychologist Gibson dead COLUMBIA, (AP) Eleanor Gibson, a psychology researcher who developed a testing method for depth perception in infants, died Monday. She was 92. While working at Comell University, Gibson developed a device called the "visual cliff’ to show that infants and toddlers could visually distinguish depth. Photographs of lhe cliff, which was strong plate glass extended from the edge ...
Publication title: Record-Journal
Publication place: Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Date: Jan 5 2003
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Noteworthy Experimental Psychologist and Author:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) 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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Accolades
Throughout Gibson's lifetime, she received the following awards.
- APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1968)[1]
- The G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology (1970)[1]
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1971)[1]
- Elected to the National Academy of Education (1972)[1]
- Yale University's Wilbur Cross Medal (1973)[1]
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977)[1]
- Howard C. Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1977)[1]
- The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (1981)[1]
- The American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Science (1986)[1]
- The National Medal of Science (1992)[1]
- In addition, she received 11 honorary degrees, including degrees from Smith College in 1972 and Yale University in 1996.[1]
Bibliographic details for "Eleanor J. Gibson"
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Dr. Eleanor Grier Gibson, Ph.D.'s Timeline
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December 7, 1910
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Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, United States
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| 2002 |
December 30, 2002
Age 92
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Columbia, Richland County, SC, United States
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December 30, 2002
Age 92
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Middlebury Cemetery, Middlebury, Addison County, VT, United States
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