Your professor says that our perception brings us into contact with the environment in order to interact with and adapt to it, such as when you turn your body to get into a car or turn your head to see where a sound is coming from. this indicates that he holds a(n) view on perceptual development.

This indicates that he holds a "ecological" view on perceptual development.

Perception is the capacity of people to procure data from the world through their faculties. Perceptual development alludes to the improvement of these faculties. Gibson's hypothesis of perception  is data based as opposed to sensation-based and to that degree, an investigation of environment (in terms of affordances), and the accompanying particular data that the living being recognizes about such affordances, is key to the ecological approach to perception.

if interdependence implies a two-way dependence, and if each partner is equally dependent on the other for success, then there is an equal commitment to the making the partnership successful. the advantage is sustainability of the relationship, the disadvantage is that decisions are "democratic" and therefore may take longer to reach and more likely to be a compromise (which is not always the best solution). as the interdependence moves away from equality, the decisions become more influenced by the more independent partner. in the extreme the relationship becomes more dictatorial and more like "master-slave". generally the relationship has less commitment in both directions and is more likely to be temporary.

if one generalizes (and one shouldn't), equity partnerships, which is probably what is implied by interdependence, can be slow to progress or change but durable. the extreme alternative, independent-dependent partnerships tend to be efficient but more fragile.

hope this but you will have to site your own evidence. : )