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Perceiving and Remembering Affordances for Others Are Continuous Processes.

Jeffrey B Wagman¹, Brandon J Thomas², Dawn M McBride¹

¹1 Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA.

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Perceiving and remembering affordances for others are continuous processes, not separate. Remembered reaching ability reflects the target person

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Ecological Psychology

Background:

Affordances are perceived through information specifying an animal-environment fit, not by combining lower-order properties.
Perception and memory are continuous, as information detection occurs over space and time.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the continuity of perceived and remembered affordances for others.
To determine if remembered maximum reaching height is reducible to remembered anthropometric properties.

Main Methods:

Participants recalled the maximum reaching height of another person.
Participants recalled anthropometric properties of the same person.
Analysis focused on the relationship between recalled height and recalled properties.

Main Results:

Remembered maximum reaching height was not reducible to remembered anthropometric properties.
Remembered reaching height scaled to the target person's ability, not the perceiver's.
Findings support an information-based perspective on affordance perception and memory.

Conclusions:

Perceiving and remembering affordances for others are continuous processes.
Information-based approaches effectively explain affordance perception and memory continuity.
This study extends the understanding of affordance continuity to social perception.