PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Low Birth Weight, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe
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Sids - findings: sids is less likely to occur in infants who use a paci er when they go to sleep. Motor development: the dynamic systems theory: infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting, motor skill is developed by, development of ns, body"s physical properties and its possibilities for movement, goal the child si motivated to reach. Gross motor skills: involve large-muscle activities, such as walking. Fine motor skills: involve more nely tuned movements, such as nger dexterity, two types of grasps, palmer grasp, pincer grasp. Perceptual-motor coupling: perception and action are not isolated but rather are coupled, individuals perceive in order to move and move in order to perceive, you have to move in order to perceive and perceive in order to move. Sensation and perception: sensation: occurs when info interacts with sensory receptors, eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils and skin, perception: interpretation of what is sensed.
