7 - Motor Development Flashcards
What does motor development hold? (Motor Developmental)
Variability, children will reach different stages at different ages
What do Mali mothers do with the children? (Motor Developmental)
Exercise them to promote their psychical development, meaning that they can reach each milestone faster
What was the previous view of motor development and what has it changed to now? (Motor Developmental)
Neurology maturity to dynamic systems approach
Explain the whole stepping reflex? (Motor Developmental)
- Present between 0-2 months
- Disappears because the ratio between muscle mass and body weight is disproportionate
- Stepping reflex reappears in water
What task did Piaget use for analysis of object permanence? (Motor Developmental)
A not B task
What is the idea behind object permanence? (Motor Developmental)
An object still exists, even if it is out of sight
What are the stages of reaching? (Motor Developmental)
- 0-3 months = pre-reaching movements
- 3-4 months = reaching
- 7 months = infant sits independently and reaching become stable
- 10 months = child’s approach to an object is influenced by their intention
What is soft assembly? (Motor Developmental)
Where pieces of desired behaviour spontaneously come together
What is a scale error? (Motor Developmental)
When a child attempts to perform an improbable task due to the extreme differences in size of the object and themselves
What is self-locomotion? (Motor Developmental)
The child’s ability to move themselves from on area to another
What is the age of an infant? (Motor Developmental)
0-12 months
What is the age of a child? (Motor Developmental)
12-36 months
What did Adolph find? (Motor Developmental)
Children do not transfer knowledge they know about crawling to walking
What was established when infants used the slopes? (Motor Developmental)
- Experienced crawlers showed caution towards the slopes
- When they were able to walk, they were clumsy and fell lots
