Factors influencing motor development Flashcards
What is an example of a fine motor skills?
Eating
All of these answers are correct
Coloring
Painting
All of these answers are correct.
How does gender affect motor development?
Girls often have a stronger ability to use both fine and gross motor skills interchangeably
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Boys are more likely to have a stronger gross motor skills.
Gender could have an impact on motor development.
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What is an example of a gross motor skills?
All these are correct.
Painting.
Crocheting.
Jumping.
Jumping
How does the growth of the child affect motor development?
Growth has no effect on motor development
Strong kids are often more advanced in fine motor skills.
Smaller children usually have better fine skills
Children that are larger and stronger may have more advanced gross motor skills
Children that are larger and stronger may have more advanced gross motor skills
What does the environment have on motor development?
Environment has little to no impact on motor development for children
The more opportunities and encouragement children get to develop their skills, the stronger their gross and fine motor skills will be.
When considering motor development, a child’s age and gender are the only factors that are relevant.
None of these are correct
The more opportunities and encouragement children get to develop their skills, the stronger their gross and fine motor skills will be.
If you see a group of children around the age of 9 to 10 years, and the boys seem shorter than the girls it’s because _______.
Boys tend to have growth spurts before girls.
Girls tend to have growth spurt’s before boys.
The boys are abnormally short.
The girls are abnormally tall.
Girls tend to have growth spurts before boys
Children with increasing _____ gain coordination.
Muscle strength
Height.
Weight
Muscle Alignment
Muscle strength
______ Is directly correlated to muscle mass, which is another area that increases with muscular development.
Weight
Height.
Age.
Strength
Weight
If there is a pencil on the desk of a six-year-old child, how will this child attempt to pick up the pencil?
With a few fingers, manipulating it easily.
Using only his/her thumb and pointer finger.
Using his/her entire head, more than likely fumbling through it.
Gracefully, with ease.
Using his/her entire hand more than likely fumbling through it.
______ Is the coordination of muscle movements.
Muscle mass.
Muscle growth.
Muscle control.
Muscle development
Muscle control
As ______ Emerges, our precision with small muscle groups improves.
Balance
gross motor development
reflexes
fine motor development
Balance
Which of the following groups is at or near the peak for motor development?
Children
adolescents
infants
newborns
Adolescents
The ability to control large muscle groups like arms and legs is known as_______.
Reflexes
balance
gross motor Development
fine motor development
Gross motor development
Unplanned and automatic responses to environmental stimuli are known as _______.
Fine motor development
balance
reflexes
gross motor development
Reflexes
Our increased ability to control bodily movements as we grow is known as_______.
Aging
motor growth
development
motor development
Motor development
Muscle memory is:
when muscles become tight
When muscles have a lot of flexibility, so much that they allow the person to bed freely
when muscles lock up
when muscles become a custom to doing something so much that it takes almost no effort to do it after a while
when muscles become a custom to doing something so much that it takes almost no effort to do it after a while
Fine motor skills, as opposed to gross motor skills, have to do with:
Large muscles, such as muscles in the legs
medium muscles, such as muscles in the shoulders
the skills of a motorized robot
small muscles, such as muscles in the hands, Wrist, and fingers
small muscles, such as muscles in the hands, Wrist, and fingers
Which of these motor skills should a three month old baby be able to perform?
Inferior pincer grasp
isolated index finger
grasping
self-feeding
Grasping
When it comes to fine motor skills, the focus tends to be on:
the wrist lock and the forearm
the first grip and the pincer grip
the pinky grip and the toe grip
Thumb grip and the wrist lock
the first grip and the pincer grip
One of the ways to get children to practice their fine motor skills is to get them to:
do finger-painting
throw a ball across the room
do tumbles across the living room floor
touch their hands to their toes
Do fingerpainting
All of the following conditions can cause impairments in gross motor skill development, except which one?
All of the options are non-causes of gross motor skills delays
certain genetic conditions, such as down syndrome
dyspraxia
pervasive developmental disorder’s
All of the options are non-causes of gross motor skills delays
Which of the following statements is not correct?
At age 1 months, infants should be able to roll over from back to tummy and tummy to back
at the age 3 years, a child should be able to pedal a tricycle for a short distance
at age 6 years, a child should be able to hop on 1 foot from a distance of 20 feet without father
at age 24 months, Infant should be able to place themselves into a small chair
At age 1 months, infants should be able to roll over from back to tummy and tummy to back
Which of the following statements are true about gross motor skills?
Boys usually develop some gross motor skills much sooner than girls
the development of gross motor skills starts as soon as a child is born
all of the answers are correct
as children age, they’re gross motor abilities continue to develop and improve
All of the answers are correct
Which of the following is not a gross motor skill?
Hopping on one leg
climbing a ladder
throwing a football
using a pencil to write your name
Using a pencil to write your name
What are gross motor skills?
Movements that involve using the small muscles of the body
movements that involve using the large muscles of the body
movements that involve the coordination of small muscles of the body with eyesight
all of the options are correct
Movements involve Using the large muscles of the body
Skills that engage the sensors to produce a desired response are known as:
ultimate motor skills
fine motor skills
gross motor skills
sensorimotor skills
Sensorimotor skills
Which should not be a quality of an activity that promotes motor learning?
Field tested and backed by sound research
difficult to perform so the children can eventually improve
it should be inclusive
fun easy to perform
difficult to perform so the children can eventually improve
Developmental coordination disorder involves all except:
ability to improve motor skills
inability to improve motor skills
coordination problems
poor posture
Ability to Improve at motor skills
Which is not an example of gross motor skill?
Throwing a ball
jumping over a fence
running up a hill
writing with a pen
Writing with a pen
Motor skills that are learned but not drop off after a couple years of inactivity are known as:
fine motor skills
Gross motor skills
discrete motor skills
continuous motor skills
Discrete motor skills
Which of the following is important to keep in mind when teaching gross motor skills?
Children tend to achieve certain milestones in gross motor skills in a progression rather than all at once.
Simply supervising organize sports is the best method for a teacher to help students develop gross motor skills.
Children of any age, even preschoolers, can advance to mature gross motor skills if given enough training and if pushed to learn quickly.
All answers are correct.
Children tend to achieve certain milestones in gross motor skills in a progression rather than all at once.
Fine motor skills would be most critical in which of the following circumstances?
Jumping rope
climbing up and down stairs
tying shoelaces
kicking a ball
Tying shoelaces
Which of the following is the best example of an approach to teaching motor skills that uses scaffolding?
Avoid correcting a student when they make an error or have bad form. Instead, constantly praise them and only let them move on to the next stage of the activity when they insist on it.
Start with a basic version of an activity and notice when a student is gaining confidence and ready to be challenged with the Next more complicated stage for that activity.
Let the students know that competition is what will drive Them to improve their motor skills and ask them to look around at who they are competing with in a class on a daily basis.
When students climb stairs. Don’t let them start by putting 2 feet on the stare at one time since this will form a bad habit.
Start with a basic version of an activity and notice when a student is gaining confidence and ready to be challenged with the Next more complicated stage for that activity.
Which of the following is an example of a child using a gross motor skill?
Grasping a pencil
zipping up a jacket
using tweezers
running and kicking a ball
Running and kicking a ball
Which of the following motor skill progression makes the most sense developmentally?
When her students aren’t able to zip their jackets by themselves,
Miss Warner tells them that they can’t go to recess that day until they are able to zip her jacket.
Miss Roberts has her students spend the year coloring in the same pictures to Develop fine motor skills since repetition is so important.
Mr. Johnson avoids praising his students until they have all achieved the ultimate goal of his gym class, which is to get to the top of the climbing wall.
Students in Mr. Yeats class begin the year with the task of stacking sturdy wooden blocks, then move onto to connecting large plastic blocks that fit together and finally begin to try To construct with smaller, more intricate plastic blocks.
Students in Mr. Yeats class begin the year with the task of stacking sturdy wooden blocks, then move onto to connecting large plastic blocks that fit together and finally begin to try To construct with smaller, more intricate plastic blocks.
