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Dynamic System Theory: Organismic Constraints Of Motor Development

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Throughout life it is said that one’s experiences is what shapes them into the person he/she has become. Motor development is the changes and the process of motor behavior throughout life. No two babies will develop at the same time or the same way. The Dynamic System Theory states that the interactions by multiple systems (constraints, coordination, and synergy) is what causes change to happen, changes do not happen solely on one type of system. “Biological organisms are complex, multidimensional, cooperative systems” (Eckersley, S. (n.d.). There are three types of constraints that limits one’s development; organismic, environmental, and task constraints (Clark, 1994). Self-organizing is “organized patterns arise solely out of interactions of internal processes and contextual influences, with not one component having causal priority over another (Thelen, 2005). Self-organizing is the means of their own activates that change themselves.
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