Proximodistal Pattern: the Sequence in Which Growth Starts at the Center

question 112

Essay

Proximodistal pattern: The sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the extremities.

---

Definitions:

Context Reinstatement

A cognitive process that involves reconstructing the circumstances or environment present during learning or an event to aid memory recall.

Transfer-appropriate Processing

A principle suggesting that memory retrieval is more effective when the cognitive processes at retrieval match those at encoding.

Conceptual Hierarchies

Conceptual hierarchies are organizational systems that arrange concepts, ideas, or items from the most general level to the most specific.

Connectionist Model

A cognitive model based on the concept that mental phenomena can be described by interconnected networks of simple and uniform units.