PSYO 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Animism, Object Permanence, Visual Acuity
9 Jan 2016
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Changed in physical movement and motor control. Cephalocaudal principle: development proceeding in the head-to-foot direction (gaining control over head before feet) Proximodistal principle: development begins inner and moves outward (arms, then hands, then ngers) Tend to occur in the same order. Same milestones occur across all cultures, which shows the biological basis of these milestones. The ages of these milestones can vary but generally occur around the same time. Kids have been recorded to have different ways of learning these tasks (there are. 100+ recorded ways that babies have learned to crawl) Motor control develops in a stage-like fashion (with the exception of re exes) These developments occur in an all-or-none way, not gradually. U-shaped development: innate re exes (such as the act of sucking, grasping or stepping) Critical periods occur at different times for each of the senses: for vision, the critical period is the rst months after birth; their optimal viewing is at.
