Joe Enters a Room, Sees a Novel Object, and Promptly

question 45

Multiple Choice

 Joe enters a room, sees a novel object, and promptly walks over and sits on it. The object was about the size of a small table and had a flat, smooth surface at approximately knee height. If asked to explain Joe's behavior, Gibson would likely say that Joe _____.

• A) was acting based on affordances
• B) had sustained damage to his hippocampus
• C) had learned the function of the object from optic flow
• D) was suffering from optic ataxia