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Stulp, Freek; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves – Developmental Science, 2018
To harness the complexity of their high-dimensional bodies during sensorimotor development, infants are guided by patterns of freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom. For instance, when learning to reach, infants free the degrees of freedom in their arm proximodistally, that is, from joints that are closer to the body to those that are more…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Comparative Analysis, Human Body, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Lynch, Michael; Cicchetti, Dante – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Assessed 215 children's relatedness to their teachers. Children were 7 to 13 years old, and 115 of them had received social services related to maltreatment. Five patterns of relatedness to teachers were identified. Maltreated children were less likely than nonmaltreated children to display optimal patterns of relatedness to teachers. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Development, Children