
A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development
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MIT Press
Published on 21. September 1993
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-262-19333-7 (ISBN)
Description
A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development explores the value of dynamical systems principles for solving the enduring puzzles of development, including the ultimate source of change, the problems of continuity and discontinuities, and nonlinear outcomes and individual differences.What do laser lights, crystals, walking, reaching, and concepts have in common? All are complex dynamic systems. Over the last decade, the burgeoning fields of synergetics and nonlinear dynamics have shown in mathematically precise ways how such complex systems can produce emergent order from the cooperation of many simpler elements. A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development explores the value of dynamical systems principles for solving the enduring puzzles of development, including the ultimate source of change, the problems of continuity and discontinuities, and nonlinear outcomes and individual differences.This companion volume to the forthcoming A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action shows how the ideas of dynamic systems may form the basis for a new theory of human development. The problems considered include areas of motor development, perceptual and cognitive development, and social development. The use of dynamic systems ranges from the metaphorical to the rigorously mathematical, but in all cases the contributions present a step forward in developmental theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1089 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-19333-7 (9780262193337)
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Persons
Linda B. Smith is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University.
Esther Thelen was Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University before her death in 2004.
Esther Thelen was Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University before her death in 2004.