Motor Development Flashcards
Motor skills emerge from an interaction between what?
Environment
Individual
Task
First year of life
Infant fights gravity to become upright
Learns how to interact with people and env’t
Curiosity and maturation drive the transition from spontaneous to voluntary movements
In first year what are babies learning
How to process multiple sensory inputs and generate desired motor responses
In the first year what do babies go through for learning new motor skills?
Trial and error
How does movement develop?
Development of CNS and PNS
Maturation of higher centers in the CNS
Development of MSK system
Development of the cardiopulm system
What areas of movement develop?
Posture
Locomotion
Manual actions
Face and head movements
Motor Development
- Similarities
Top-down progression
Transition from with support to without support
Stability before mobility
Locomotion is creative
Motor Development
- Differences
Development is complex
Ranges for motor milestones
Motor variability
Cultural influences
