Susan, age 9, has played soccer for years. She used a straight leg kick every time for a while, but recently began to try to bend her leg more depending on the type of kick. As a result, sometimes she made errors and sometimes had a superior kick. Just recently she has been able to execute many types of kicks with much greater success. What feature of developmental systems theory is shown here?,
a. Change simultaneously occurs in several components.
b. The child’s motor system is permanently destabilized.
c. The body must wait for environmental factors to kick in.
d. The child’s motor system is unstable for a while, but then self-organizes into a new system of action.
Answer: d. The child’s motor system is unstable for a while, but then self-organizes into a new system of action.
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