PSYC 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Habituation, Snellen Chart, Retina
16 Nov 2016
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The body"s physical properties and its possibilities for movement. The goal the child is motivated to reach. The environmental support for the skill: mastering a motor skill requires the infant"s active efforts to coordinate several components of the skill. Infants explore and select possible solutions to the demands of a new task. Infants assemble adaptive patterns by modifying their current movement patterns: universal milestones, such as crawling, reaching, and walking, are learned through the process of adaptation: Infants modulate their movement patterns to t a new task by exploring and selecting possible con gurations). Motor development is not a passive process in which genes dictate the unfolding of a sequence of skills over time. The infant actively puts together a skill to achieve a goal within the constraints set by the infant"s body and environment. Nature and nurture, the infant and the environment, are all working together as part of an ever-changing system.
