PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes -Dynamical Systems Theory, Shoulder Joint, Primary Sensory Areas

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Maxine Wintre

Document Summary

Physical development: the brain, body, motor skills, sexual development. Highly developed areas ( subcortical - lower brain centers - control states of. 1st areas of cerebrum to mature are -primary motor areas ( control simple motor programmed sequence of events where the nerves and muscles mature in a downward and outward direction. Myelin- forms sheath around individual neurons- acts like an insulator to speed. Myleinization of the higher brain centres ( cerebrum) it continues into adolescence, Primary sensory areas - control sensory processes- vision, hearing, smelling, tasting. End of first month- babies brain n neck muscles mature enough to permit first milestone in locomotor development: lifting their chins while lying flat on their stomachs. Children"s motor development tells very less about future developmental outcomes. Motor development proceeds in a cephalocaudal ( head downward) direction , activates involving head, neck, upper extremities preceding those involving legs and lower extremities. Maturational viewpoint, the experimental ( or practice ) hypothesis, dynamical systems.