The Ecological Theory of Perception Proposed a Significant Departure from Earlier

question 4

Multiple Choice

The ecological theory of perception proposed a significant departure from earlier views on infant perceptual development because the theory emphasized the

• A) infant's role in piecing together dynamic, visual experiences in their environment in a way that allowed them to make sense of their experiences.
• B) negative impact that environment poverty would have in reducing an infant's ability to correctly develop key cognitive processes.
• C) dependency that infants had on their cultural context to provide important visual cues necessary for proper perceptual development.
• D) role of direct parent-child interactions in helping children make sense of their visual world.
• E) role of visually complex environments in facilitating perceptual skills.

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