CH 8.2: Motor Development in Preschool Children Flashcards
When do most infants learn to walk?
18mo
When can children run easily?
5-6yrs
Other than walking, what are children’s other 2 main gross-motor skills?
Running and hopping
From 2-6yrs, children become much more proficient at coordinating the motions of their what?
Arms and legs
Improved fine motor skills means preschool children are more capable of what?
Taking care of themselves (feeding, dressing, etc)
Major fine-motor improvements in preschoolers?
-more dexterous
-better pen grip improves drawing and printing (5yrs)
By what age is a child’s handedness usually clear?
2yrs
what % of children use their right hand for fine-motor activities?
90%
development of a child’s drawing abilities
2yrs: scribbling
3yrs: shape stage - draw circles, rectangles, triangles, crosses, X’s and odd-shapes
3-4yrs: design stage - combining 6 basic shapes to make more complex drawings
4-5yrs: pictorial stage - begin to depict recognizable objects (people, animals, plants, etc)
which hemispheres control each side of the body’s limb movement?
right hem: left side body
left hem: right side body
brain lateralization
each half of the brain has functional specialization, both halves are different from each other
how does the brain of a left-handed person sometimes differ from that of a righty’s?
language functions can sometimes be lateralized in the right hemispheres or both hemispheres for leftys
left handed children are more likely to have what health issues?
migraines, allergies, asthma, mental health challenges, and language-based problems
why are leftys usually very artistically and spatially talented?
because the right side of the brain dominates music and spatial abilities
which handed children are generally more mathematically talented?
leftys
