Module 1

Question 1

What is Motor Development?

Answer 1

Examines motor behavior as it changes across the lifespan, processes, and factors that influence it.

Question 2

MOTOR LEARNING

Answer 2

improvements in motor skills due to practice or
experience, and processes and factors influencing these
improvements

Question 3

MOTOR CONTROL

Answer 3

Examines how movements
are produced and adapted

Question 4

Developmental Perspective; see change in motor skill as

Answer 4

a lifespan process
 age‐related, but NOT age‐determined
 sequential
 cumulative
 multifactorial
 individual

Question 5

Skill

Answer 5

Skill consists in the ability to bring about some end result with
maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy and/or time

Question 6

Reflexive period

Answer 6

• prenatal- 2 wks
• reflexes
  -spontaneous movements

Question 7

Pre-adapted period

Answer 7

-2 wks- 1 year
-onset of voluntary behavior
-goal: independent function

Question 8

Fundamental Motor Pattern Period

Answer 8

-1-7years
-building blocks for later emerging skills
-Locomotor patterns of coordination
-Projecting and striking objects
-Manipulating “tools” (objects)
-species-typical skills

Question 9

Context Specific Period

Answer 9

-7-11 years
- ontogenetic skills emerge

Question 10

Skillful Period

Answer 10

-11+ years

Question 11

Compensation period

Answer 11

motor skill development in which a skilled
individual is compensating for a change in
an organismic constraint