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.