Child Psych Dynamic Systems Theory

What is a system

2+ components and the ways they relate to one another whole person acting within their environment constituted a dynamic system

Dynamic-Systems Theories: View of Children's Nature

Innate motivations to explore the environment (Piaget) Precise analysis of problem-solving activity (information-processing) Early emerging competencies (core-knowledge) Formative influence of other people (sociocultural)

Dynamic-Systems Theories -

Investigate how change occurs over time in complex systems

Focus -

Relations among motor activities, attention, environment and other aspects of children's behavior & emphasize how varied aspects of the child function as an integrated whole to produce behavior

Dynamic-systems theories view development as a process of self-organization =

o bringing together and integrating components as needed to adapt to a continuously changing environment o The organization process is sometimes called soft assembly

soft assembly =

the components and their organization change from moment to moment and situation to situation