HDF 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spatial Memory, Family Therapy, The Sequence
27 Dec 2016
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The term self-organizing was introduced by w. ross ashby in 1947 and became linked to general system theory as a way of characterizing how systems emerge from simpler to more complex forms or patterns of behavior. Elaborated by ludwig von bertalanffy in his book, general system theory, in 1968. General systems theory is applied to many fields including biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Applied to infant motor development and cognition by esther thelen in the 1980s and 1990s. Applied to cognitive development by kurt w. fischer and thomas r. bidell in the 1980s and. Gilbert gottleib synthesized the application of systems theory to development in the 1990s. Dynamic systems theory (dst) attempts to explain how new, complex patterns or properties of behavior come into existence as a result of simpler components or processes that are already part of a system. It focuses on the reality of both variability and pattern in development.
