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Gibson's theory suggests that perception is a direct process influenced by environmental cues, allowing individuals to perceive their surroundings without cognitive interpretation.

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Gibson’s direct theory of perception covers: the bottom-up approach emphasizing the role of innate factors and sensory information for survival; the concept of optic flow, which describes how objects appear as the observer moves; motion parallax, where nearer objects seem to move more quickly than those further away; types of invariants in the environment that remain constant during movement, such as linear perspective and texture perspective; and affordance, which refers to the actions we perceive our environment to enable.
Gibson’s direct theory of perception, including: outcomes
Support for Gibson’s direct theory of perception is provided by the visual cliff study conducted by Gibson and Walk.
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Criticism of Gibson’s direct theory of perception highlights its neglect of the effects of expectation and cultural influences on how we perceive.
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