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What does motor development involve and include?

-Involves the study of motor behavior and human development from infancy through old age.

-Includes issues related to motor learning and motor control.

Motor development

How motor behavior changes across the lifespan.

Motor Learning

How practice and experience improve motor skills.

Motor Control

How the neuromuscular system coordinates movement.

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What are the three sub-disciplines of motor behavior?

  1. Motor control
  2. Motor learning
  3. Motor development
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How do actions and movements differ?

Actions are operations on the environment, while movements are task-specific motion patterns.

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Actions

operations on the environment

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Movement

task-specific motion patterns

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What is the maturational perspective?

-CNS maturation is the major driver of developmental change. –Environment only temporarily affects MD -heredity ultimately controls MD.

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What is the information processing perspective?

-Brain processes information like a computer to control behavior. -Behavior is organized by stored programs (schemas in the brain).

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What is the ecological perspective?

Behavior emerges from the interaction of constraints (individual, task, and environment).

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What is the dynamical systems approach?

Behavioral changes are not always continuous, linear progressions, but are often sudden or abrupt.

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