A skilled climber sees a small hold on a rock face as something she can grip. A novice climber looking at the same rock face sees the hold as too small to use.
Explain one strength and one weakness of using Gibson's concept of affordances to explain the climbers' perception.
52 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 8.1 Perception, covering 8.1.1 Depth cues, illusions and constancies, 8.1.2 Direct Theory of Perception (Gibson, 1996), 8.1.3 Constructivist Theory of Perception (Gregory, 1970), and 8.1.4 Effects on perceptual set. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.