PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Object Permanence, Puzzle Video Game, Tennis Ball

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

Document Summary

Psychological implications of early motor development (embodied cognition) 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, explain one or both of them and provide an example from motor development. Discuss research relevant to interpreting piaget"s a-not-b task (describe the task), how do we interpret the improved performance with more movement experience. What is meant by optical flow, and how is this information useful. Infant bones are too soft to enable them to sit up. Cross-cultural evidence shows that people show the same sequence of milestones, so the timing of genes turning on and off should be universal. Maturation is necessary but not sufficient for the development of motor skills. Cross-cultural evidence showed that enrichment can accelerate the process of development strengthen the muscles and increase motor development.