[PSYC 156] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (70 pages long!)
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Bottom line; amount of experience- predicts more successful: learning locomotion searches. Dev is not simple or linear: kids organize themselves, the environment shapes them to organize in a particular way. Interactions btw a number of systems and factors: not linear, not additive but super complex, system organizes itself (tapping example from class) Dynamic systems say these don"t just happen because of maturation- it is visual system dev. and experience coming together (babies self organize the cues) Sytems self-organize in response to the environment. All parts of the system have to work together in order to get an: ecological theory ability to work. You don"t have anything in your head what 100 feet is based on experiences you have moving. Criticism: could just be getting more: hidden objects experience. They know that there should be two because they added it in their head and are surprised when there are three: criticism: this study and above are done with infants of.
