The ecological approach to development: An alternative to cognitivism

Wilcox, Stephen; Katz, Stuart

doi:10.1016/0022-0965(81)90079-5

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“…The two forms of responding may be identical, but their functions (consequences) are quite different. This perspective on cognition shares certain commonalities with "ecological" views thereof (Neisser, 1984;Wilcox & Katz, 1981) and warrants further examination (cf. Morris, 1989).…”

Section: Response Formmentioning

confidence: 91%

Some Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Ecobehavioral Analysis

Morris¹,

Midgley²

1990

Ecobehavioral Analysis and Developmental Disabilities

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Section: Response Formmentioning

confidence: 91%

Some Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Ecobehavioral Analysis

Morris¹,

Midgley²

1990

Ecobehavioral Analysis and Developmental Disabilities

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“…It is likewise related to the contextual and ecological approaches to cognition (see Neisser, 1985;Wilcox & Katz, 1981;cf. Leahey, 1991, p. 377), as well as perhaps to the PDP neural network theory as a theory of "direct adaptation" (see Donahoe & Palmer, 1989).…”

Section: About and Beyond Behaviorism About Behaviorismmentioning

confidence: 97%

NATURE = f(NURTURE): A REVIEW OF OYAMA'S THE ONTOGENY OF INFORMATION: DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS AND EVOLUTION¹

Midgley

Morris

1992

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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“…The idea was also profoundly at odds with constructivism. As Wilcox and Katz (Ref , p. 255) wrote in comparing a Gibsonian approach to Piaget's theory, in the ecological approach, ‘The organism discovers but does not invent; the world becomes more differentiated, not enriched’.…”

Section: Non‐nativist Alternatives To Piagetmentioning

confidence: 99%