Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Social & Behavioral Science |
Department |
Psychology |
Creator |
Fogel, Alan Dale |
Title |
Social dynamics of early human development |
Date |
1990 |
Description |
I present the outlines of theory of social dynamics that combines a dynamic systems perspective and a Gibsonian ecological perspective to an understanding of the development of action (Fogel, in press). Different physical and social environments afford different opportunities for action. A rattle affords noise making, for example. To activate this affordance, the individual has to identify the specific microscopic movements necessary to evoke sound from the rattle: the arm and wrist movements related to shaking. How does a baby come to acquire this action? Partly by exploratory play, but at first this play is embedded in social interaction. A social dynamic perspective suggests that during adult-infant interaction, adults identify action affordances that the infant is potentially capable of doing. Then, development occurs by two processes. In the first, the adult engages a child in a joint construction of the action afforded by the situation, helping the child perform the action via a co-regulation of the relevant movement parameters (e. g., demonstrating rattle shaking then placing the object in the infant's hand, or moving the infant's hand. In the second process, the adult transmits or receives information that highlights the relevant parameters of movement related to action affordances. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
Hokkaido University - Research and Clinical Center for Child Development, Graduate School of Education |
Journal Title |
Bulletin of the Research and Clinical Center for Child Development |
Volume |
13 |
First Page |
1 |
Last Page |
11 |
Subject |
Social dynamics; Early human development |
Subject LCSH |
Child development |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Fogel, A. D. (1990). Social dynamics of early human development. Bulletin of the Research and Clinical Center for Child Development, 13, 1-11 Hokkaido University, Japan. |
Rights Management |
©Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
745,621 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,14407 |
ARK |
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Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
705586 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx6xnx |