PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dynamical System, Embodied Cognition, Optical Flow

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Two older theories + a more recent theory: [note. Psychological implications of early motor development [embodied cognition] Causes and correlates of physical development: nutrition/obesity. Two early theories (maturation vs. experiental [learning] hypothesis compared to more recent. Review questions: describe the maturational and experiential viewpoints of motor development. Provide one piece of evidence in support of each theory: there are two key elements (or ideas) associated with the dynamic systems theory of motor development. Provide a concrete example from motor development: discuss research relevant to interpreting piaget"s a-no-b task. Differ from maturation and experience vies: do not view motors skills as: maturation + experience -> unfolding motor skills. [timing: person" as passive to genes/environment, rather, main idea [shared with piaget, 1 (old). Learning when and how hard to kick to be able to jump: there"s no instructions, they must integrate the components and figure it out by trial and error and then it is fun.