KIN 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: High Guard, Visual Acuity, Perforated Hardboard
23 May 2016
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Kin100 lecture 26 motor development in pediatrics. The study of movement behavior and the underlying processes across the lifespan. The study of motor development helps in the development of proper educational techniques and can aid in clinical interventions. Much easier for children to develop particular skills, given the appropriate stimuli. For example, learning a new language is difficult for adults. Children, however, are able to pick up different languages easily, if exposed to those languages during the sensitive period. Fist born children tend to develop motor skills later than second, third, and so on, born children. Parents prevent the first-born child from being exposed to stimuli that aid in the development of walking, etc. Humans are not born with fully developed sensory and motor systems. Therefore, human infants rely on reflexive movements in the early stages of life. Reflexes are involuntary response to external stimuli.
