Chapter 5 Motor Sensory And Perceptual Development

Question 1

Who is Arnold Gesellschaft?

Answer 1

A developmentalist that created the dynamic systems view

Question 2

What is the dynamic systems view?

Answer 2

• Children develop motor skills in a fixed order and within specific time frames: the unfolding of genetic plan or maturation
• For infants, perception and action are coupled: to develop motor skills infants must perceive something in the environment that motivates them to act and use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements

Question 3

What does it mean when we say perception and action are coupled?

Answer 3

• To develop motor skills, infants must perceive something in the environment that motivates them to act and use their perceptions to fine-tune their movement
  – motor skills represent solutions to the infant school
  – when infants are motivated to do something to create a new motor behaviour

Question 4

And infants new behaviour is the result of converging factors, what are those factors?

Answer 4

– The development of the nervous system
– the bodies physical properties and it’s possibilities for movement
– the goal the child is motivated to reach
– the environmental support for the skill