Physical & Motor Development Flashcards
Girls/boys experience puberty before girls/boys do.
girls/boys
True or False:
The year of age girls get their first period is dropping.
True
True or False:
A child’s size and motor abilities has no influence on their psychological development.
False
It can affect things like testing of wills, social interaction, attachment behaviors, boldness, agency, etc.
Why is puberty called the “renaissance of the brain?”
- period of rapid development
- new behaviors and unctions
- reinduces nerual plasticity
How does puberty affect the brain?
new environmental experiences that become available by living in an adult body affect the brain
How does the decline of age of puberty onset affect the brain?
- “an engine without a skilled driver”
- brain exposed to environmental stimuli for adult world, but does not have the skill to navigate
What experience do boys who are late maturers tend to have?
- more anxious and attention seaking
- feel socially adequate
- lower academic aspirations
Boys who are late maturers often have parents who do not have high academic aspirations for them. Why?
parents view child as a kid, and not a “big strong man” who is capable of such achievement
True or False:
Development is an evocative process.
True
If you see a person who looks like a kid, you’ll treat them like a kid.
What experience do girls who are early maturers tend to have?
- more anxious and depressed
- less outgoing and popular
- not as appealing to underdeveloped male counterparts
- sexualized by older boys; drawn to activities that they are not cognitively ready to handle
Why do girls and boys undergoing puberty have opposite trends?
girls are sexualized, boys are not
What is the nature theory of motor development?
unfolding of a genetically programmed sequence of events
* cephalocaudal/proximodistal development
* as brain gets bigger, it instructs body to do more complex things
What is the nurture theory of motor development?
children who have more opportunities and encouragement to exercise and practice motor movements can better develop these skills
What is the dynamic systems theory of motor development?
The body needs to be thought of as a system; body ⇆ brain
How did Thelen study the dynamic systems theory?
examined the number of steps infants take at different weights
* control
* added weight
* removed weight (in water)