Glossary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| affordance | properties of the environment, specified in the information array (flow field) of the individual, that present possibilities for action and are available for an agent to perceive directly and act upon |
| attention and intention | Once an intention (goal) is adopted, the agent’s perception (attention) is attuned to the affordances of the environment. |
| attunement | attunement is a persisting state of awareness of the affordances in the environment and how they may be acted upon |
| community of practice | The concept of a **community of practice** (often abbreviated as CoP) refers to the process of social learning that occurs and shared sociocultural practices that emerge and evolve when people who have common goals interact as they strive towards those goals. |
| detection of invariants | perception of what doesn't change across different situations |
| direct perception (pick up) | describes the way an agent in an environment senses affordances without the need for computation or symbolic representation |
| effectivities | The agents ability to recognize and use affordances of the environment. |
| embodiment | as an explanation of cognition emphasizes first that the body exists as part of the world. In a dynamic process, perception and action occurring through and because of the body being in the world, interact to allow for the processes of simulation and representation. |
| legitimate peripheral participation | the initial stage(s) of a person's active membership in a community of practice to which he or she has access and the opportunity to become a full participant. |
| perceiving and acting cycle | Gibson (1986) described a continuous perception-action cycle, which is dynamic and ongoing. Agents perceive and act with intentionality in the environment at all times. |
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