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disposition > affordance

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affordance  

Definition

  • In Gibson's ecological theory of perception, this term refers to all opportunities for action on an object as a function of an animal's sensory-motor abilities.

Broader concept

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Chong, I., & Proctor, R. W. (2020). On the evolution of a radical concept : Affordances according to Gibson and their subsequent use and development. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(11), 117–132. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619868207

    [Study type: literature review / Access: free]

  • • Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Houghton Mifflin.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

  • • Luyat, M., & Regia-Corte, T. (2009). Les affordances : de James Jerome Gibson aux formalisations récentes du concept. L’Année Psychologique, 109(2), 297-332. https://doi.org/10.4074/S000350330900205X

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]

  • • Niveleau, C.-É. (2006). Le concept gibsonien d’affordance : entre filiation, rupture et reconstruction conceptuelle. Intellectica, 43(1), 159–199. https://doi.org/10.3406/intel.2006.1341

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]

  • • Sanders, J. (1997). An ontology of affordances. Ecological Psychology, 9(1), 97‑112. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326969eco0901_4

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

  • • Toyoshima, F. (2018). Modeling affordances with dispositions. https://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/paper20_caos3.pdf

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]

  • • Turvey, M. T. (1992). Affordances and prospective control : An outline of the ontology. Ecological Psychology, 4(3), 173‑187. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326969eco0403_3

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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