Factors influencing motor development

Question 1

What is an example of a fine motor skills?

Eating

All of these answers are correct

Coloring

Painting

Answer 1

All of these answers are correct.

Question 2

How does gender affect motor development?

Girls often have a stronger ability to use both fine and gross motor skills interchangeably

All answers are correct.

Boys are more likely to have a stronger gross motor skills.

Gender could have an impact on motor development.

Answer 2

All of these answers are correct.

Question 3

What is an example of a gross motor skills?

All these are correct.

Painting.

Crocheting.

Jumping.

Answer 3

Jumping

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Children that are larger and stronger may have more advanced gross motor skills

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The more opportunities and encouragement children get to develop their skills, the stronger their gross and fine motor skills will be.

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Girls tend to have growth spurts before boys

Question 7

Children with increasing _____ gain coordination.

Muscle strength

Height.

Weight

Muscle Alignment

Answer 7

Muscle strength

Question 8

______ Is directly correlated to muscle mass, which is another area that increases with muscular development.

Weight

Height.

Age.

Strength

Answer 8

Weight

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

Using his/her entire hand more than likely fumbling through it.

Question 10

______ Is the coordination of muscle movements.

Muscle mass.

Muscle growth.

Muscle control.

Muscle development

Answer 10

Muscle control

Question 11

As ______ Emerges, our precision with small muscle groups improves.

Balance

gross motor development

reflexes

fine motor development

Answer 11

Balance

Question 12

Which of the following groups is at or near the peak for motor development?

Children

adolescents

infants

newborns

Answer 12

Adolescents

Question 13

The ability to control large muscle groups like arms and legs is known as_______.

Reflexes

balance

gross motor Development

fine motor development

Answer 13

Gross motor development

Question 14

Unplanned and automatic responses to environmental stimuli are known as _______.

Fine motor development

balance

reflexes

gross motor development

Answer 14

Reflexes

Question 15

Our increased ability to control bodily movements as we grow is known as_______.

Aging

motor growth

development

motor development

Answer 15

Motor development

Question 16

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

Answer 16

when muscles become a custom to doing something so much that it takes almost no effort to do it after a while

Question 17

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

Answer 17

small muscles, such as muscles in the hands, Wrist, and fingers

Question 18

Which of these motor skills should a three month old baby be able to perform?

Inferior pincer grasp

isolated index finger

grasping

self-feeding

Answer 18

Grasping

Question 19

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

Answer 19

the first grip and the pincer grip

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Do fingerpainting

Question 21

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

Answer 21

All of the options are non-causes of gross motor skills delays

Question 22

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

Answer 22

At age 1 months, infants should be able to roll over from back to tummy and tummy to back

Question 23

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

Answer 23

All of the answers are correct

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Using a pencil to write your name

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Movements involve Using the large muscles of the body

Question 26

Skills that engage the sensors to produce a desired response are known as:

ultimate motor skills

fine motor skills

gross motor skills

sensorimotor skills

Answer 26

Sensorimotor skills

Question 27

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

Answer 27

difficult to perform so the children can eventually improve

Question 28

Developmental coordination disorder involves all except:

ability to improve motor skills

inability to improve motor skills

coordination problems

poor posture

Answer 28

Ability to Improve at motor skills

Question 29

Which is not an example of gross motor skill?

Throwing a ball

jumping over a fence

running up a hill

writing with a pen

Answer 29

Writing with a pen

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Discrete motor skills

Question 31

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.

Answer 31

Children tend to achieve certain milestones in gross motor skills in a progression rather than all at once.

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Tying shoelaces

Question 33

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.

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Running and kicking a ball

Question 35

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.

Answer 35

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.