Unit 2 Flashcards
Prehension
is the grasping of an object
Grip movements are
body- scaled
Ratio of hand size to object size is
consistent for transitioning from using one hand to using two hands to pick up object.
3-4 months
infants become consistent in moving the hand to the mouth.
5 months
infants open the mouth in anticipation of the hand’s arrival.
2 months
infants show bilateral arm extension and reaching.
4.5 months
infants reach for objects with both arms (usually one hand reaches and grasps object first).
During year 1
infants alternate between predominantly unimanual and bimanual reaching.
By 12 months
infants being making pulling apart and insertion actions.
Early in year 2
infants use objects as tools.
After 18 months
infants manipulate objects cooperatively with both hands.
By end of year 2
complementary activities
Catching:
How objects are intercepted and then manipulated.
Early Catching
arms and hands are rigid, ball caught against the chest, heads turned away
Proficient Catching
Hands “give” to absorb force. Catcher moves, Fingers up/high down/low
Invariants
stable patterns
Anticipation
involved in many manipulative tasks and interception skills.
Expanding optical array
visual pattern that expands or constricts on the retina
Invariants and Expanding Optial Array are examples of
Two characteristics of the person environment system for catching involve constant patterns of change
What sets humans apart
Manipulative skills
What skills do infants excel at:
reaching and grasping
When do children become good at catching
by 11 or 12 years of age, but still no movement
Aging probably affects ___:
getting to a ball more than manipulative aspects of catching
The following progression of skills leads to crawling and creeping:
Crawling with the chest and stomach on the floor, Low creeping with the stomach off the floor but the legs working together, Rocking back and forth in the high creep position, Creeping with the legs and arms working alternately.
The difference between crawling and creeping:
creeping is moving on hands and knees while crawling is moving on hands and knees as well as including abdomen
The difference between crawling and creeping:
creeping is moving on hands and knees while crawling is moving on hands and knees as well as including abdomen
How could balance, strength, and or coordination act as rate limiter for creeping and crawling
Rate limiters are things that inhibit or slow down motor skills. Those milestones are indicators or norms, not what is going to happen. Strength could be a rate limiter because the infant has to be able to push up off the floor to begin creeping/crawling. Balance and coordination are also important factors because these motions help with equilibrium and taking those early motions and building stability.
Walking: .
the first form of upright, bipedal locomotion
Walking is ___:
50% phasing relationship between the legs and a period of double support (when both feet are on the ground) followed by a period of single support.
Characteristics of early walking
Maximizes stability and balance over mobility, Arms are in high guard, Feet are out-toed and spread wide apart, Independent steps are taken, Rate controllers are strengthand balance.
Not every individual can do this
rehabilitation, physical therapy
Steps in observing a skill:
analysis, planing, positioning
Analysis
must know the course of development for skill
Planning
observer must organize and plan, watch several times, criteria
Positioning
move and watch skill from angles