I’ve finally gotten a handle on the frustration that’s been building within me regarding psychology as an academic field.
Tag: critical thinking
Deprivation Is Part of Life
One of my children observed in a conversation that their childhood was “deprived.” I think they were a little surprised when I agreed… and even more so when I explained why.
Why Does the Concept of Affordances Still Seem So Difficult for Some Psychologists to Understand?
Dr. James Gibson’s revolutionary ecological theory of perceiving and acting has been around for over 40 years. A key element in his theory is the concept of affordances. Yet even after all the time and years that psychologists have written about affordances, the concept still doesn’t seem well understood. Why?