Emergent Forms: Origins and Early Development of Human Action and PerceptionOxford University Press, 11 мая 1995 г. - Всего страниц: 384 While it is often assumed that behavioral development must be based upon both physical law and the biological principles of morphogenesis and selection, forging a link between these phenomena has remained an elusive goal. Now in Emergent Forms, psychologist Eugene C. Goldfield offers an exciting new theoretical framework--based, in part, on the concept of self-organization--that promises to aid researchers in their quest to discover the underlying origins and processes of behavioral development. Addressing the question of how familiar human functional acts--such as eating, walking, manipulating objects, and smiling--emerge during infancy, Goldfield proposes that during perceptually guided spontaneous activity a variety of biodynamic devices for doing different kinds of work are assembled and adapted to specific tasks. Throughout, the theory is examined in the context of development, and extended to atypical development and other domains, such as cognition and language. The author also addresses many long-standing issues in behavioral development, including the apparent disappearance of so-called primitive behaviors, the emergence of new skills, and the role of the caregiver in skill acquisition. The author concludes his work by discussing how the implications of this research can be applied to understanding abnormal development in children who are motor impaired. Interdisciplinary in scope and accessible to a broad range of readers, Emergent Forms will fascinate students and researchers of ecological, developmental, evolutionary, and cognitive psychology. |
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ASSEMBLY AND TUNING AT DIFFERENT TIME SCALES | 109 |
THE ACTION SYSTEMS | 185 |
CONCLUSION | 307 |
References | 331 |
Author Index | 353 |
Subject Index | 362 |
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Emergent Forms: Origins and Early Development of Human Action and Perception Eugene Curtis Goldfield Ограниченный просмотр - 1995 |
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Стр. 289 - Man, but as soon as I began to put my notes together, I saw that it would require a separate treatise. My first child was born on December 27th, 1839, and I at once commenced to make notes on the first dawn of the various expressions which he exhibited, for I felt convinced, even at this early period, that the most complex and fine shades of expression must all have had a gradual and natural origin.
Стр. 15 - Behaviour develops from the beginning through the progressive expansion of a perfectly integrated total pattern and the individuation within it of partial patterns, which acquire various degrees of discreteness.
Стр. 336 - Fetters, L., & Todd, J. (1987). Quantitative assessment of infant reaching movements.
Стр. 98 - A particle remains at rest or in a state of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force.
Стр. 331 - Alberts, JR, & Cramer, CP (1988). Ecology and experience: Sources of means and meaning of developmental change. In EM Blass (Ed.), Handbook of behavioral neurobiology: Vol. 9. Developmental psychobiology and behavioral ecology.
Стр. 42 - We now know that far from equilibrium, new types of structure may originate spontaneously', note Prigogine and his co-author Isabelle Stengers. 'In far-from-equilibrium con20 ditions we may have transformations from disorder, from thermal chaos, into order. New dynamic states of matter may originate, states that reflect the interaction of a given system with its surroundings
Стр. 2 - The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill.
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