Chapter 13 & 14 - Sensory and Percetual Development Flashcards
Developmentalist views on perception-action
- Developmental systems are interrelated
- Movement is important to perceptual development
- Movement is necessary for the coupling and tuning of perception and movement.
Perceptual-motor theories in 1960s
- Perception is the precursor of movement and cognition.
- Thought that learning disabilities could be remediated through perceptual-motor programs.
Jean Piaget
- Reality is constructed by relating action to sensory information.
- Kids are “little scientists”
- Kids go through 4 stages and gain more understanding of their surroundings.
Piaget’s Stage 1) Sensorimotor
- Birth to 2 years
- Child interacts with the world through sensation and movement.
- Develops ability to hold a mental representation of objects
Piaget’s Stage 2) Preoperational
- 2 to 7 years
- Develops ability to use symbols
- Egocentric: understands world only from his/her own perspective.
Piaget’s Stage 3) Concrete operational
- age 7 to adolescence
- Can use “here and now” logic and reasoning
- Cannot accurately consider the hypothetical
Affordances
What the environment permits, given the capabilities of the performer.
Microsystem
People and objects in the immediate environment.
- Parent and child
Mesosystem
Influences of microsystems on each other
- School, friends
Exosystem
Social, environmental, and governmental forces
Macrosystem
Subcultures and cultures in which the other 3 systems are embedded.
Assaiante Model
1) Birth to Standing
- Cephalocaudal direction of muscle control
2) Standing to age 6
- Coordination of upper and lower body
3) Age 7 though Adolescence
- Refinement of head stabilization
4) Adulthood
- Refined control of degrees of freedom in the neck
