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What is Perceptual Development?
The process through which children, primarily infants, receive, interpret, and understand various sensory inputs. Like grown-ups, any stimuli these infants come across et through their five senses: smell, sight, hearing, taste, and touch.
Perceptual development is an important part of life because?
Especially during the initial stages of life. differentiating various sounds around infants is necessary for language development. This is essential in physical development, since mobility helps them play and react to their senses. From the infant stages until the late stages of childhood, perception enables them to navigate the world around them.
What is Perceptual-Motor Development?
The process that connects the infant’s sensory skills, which is the brain, to all areas of their body that respond to motor skills to enable them to move around their environment. Some examples of this include, developing the ability to relate their movements o time, such as when and how to move fast or slow down.
Define Spatial Awareness.
The ability to understand the relationship between one’s movements and the objects in one’s surrounding environment.
Define Perceptual Skills
When the brain’s sensory functions that enable infants to preform activities and make decisions from the simplest to the most complex.
What are the different types of perceptual skills?
Visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic
Define Visual Skills
This represents the brain’s ability to perceive and understand what the eyes see. These skills are necessary to help infants navigate activities like playing, eating, walking, and writing.
Define Auditory Skills
The necessary part of the development of an infant, as they aid in understanding what they hear (the receptive language) and expressive language (responding to what they hear). These skills help them in listening and engaging in conversation.
Define Tactile Perception
This involves the ability to perceive objects and get to perceive things through a sense of touch. This term explains the spatial stimulation that is imposed on the skin. Activities involved include art projects, tracing objects with fingers, and even holding things.
Define Kinesthetic Discrimination
This refers to recognizing small changes involving the muscles and general body motions. This affects the entire body and gross motor skills. Activities include jumping and generally being physically active.
Define Motor Skills
The bodily functions that involve targeted body movements to perform specific tasks. Examples of these range from walking to riding a horse.
What are the two main types of motor skills?
Fine motor skills and gross motor skills
Define Fine Motor Skills
Requires small muscles in the hands and wrists. These are small movements to handle crucial tasks in everyday life. Examples of this include cutting with scissors, or writing.
Define Gross Motor Skills
Involves using the larger muscles, such as the legs, arms, and torso. The abilities engaged require the whole body to move. All forms of physical activity, like running and raking, require these skills.
Define Perceptual-Motor Skills
These are an infant’s ability to develop ample interaction with their environment through senses and motor skills. The process involves combined visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic skills to enable motor abilities. Spatial awareness, body awareness, directional awareness, and temporal awareness.
