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| Content Provider | frontiers |
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| Author | Golenia, Laura Schoemaker, Marina M. Otten, Egbert Mouton, Leonora J. Bongers, Raoul M. |
| Abstract | The Dynamic Systems Approach (DSA) to development has been shown to be a promising theory to understand developmental changes. In this perspective, we use the example of mid-childhood (6- to 10-years of age) reaching to show how using the DSA can advance the understanding of development. Mid-childhood is an important developmental period that has often been overshadowed by the focus on the acquisition of reaching during infancy. This underrepresentation of mid-childhood studies is unjustified, as earlier studies showed that important developmental changes in mid-childhood reaching occur that refine the skill of reaching. We review these studies here for the first time and show that different studies revealed different developmental trends, such as non-monotonic and linear trends, for variables such as movement time and accuracy at target. Unfortunately, proposed explanations for these developmental changes have been tailored to individual studies, limiting their scope. Also, explanations were focused on a single component or process in the system that supposedly causes developmental changes. Here, we propose that the DSA can offer an overarching explanation for developmental changes in this research field. According to the DSA, motor behavior emerges from interactions of multiple components entailed by the person, environment and task. Changes in all these components can potentially contribute to the emerging behavior. We show how the principles of change of the DSA can be used as an overarching framework by applying these principles not only to development, but also the behavior itself. This underlines its applicability to other fields of development. |
| ISSN | 16641078 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01774 |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2017-10-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Mid-childhood Dynamic systems approach Motor development Action-perception Developmental trends Goal-directed reaching |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychology |
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