KIN 4512 Chapter : Chapter 1
15 Mar 2019
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Continuous = cumulative change happening throughout your life. Sequential = occur one after the other; series of changes. Age-related = certain things happen at certain ages; ex: certain timeframe when a child should start walking, talking: depends on underlying processes, ex: physiological changes, genetics, environmental changes, etc. Constraints-prohibits you from doing something and shapes movement: limits or discourages certain movements, permits or encourages other movements. Newell"s model of constraints (figure in book: individual constraints. Inside the body (internal: structural constraints: physical, related to the body"s structure; quantitative. : basketball players tend to be taller shorter people see limitations. Injuries can put temporary structural constraints: functional constraints: psychological, related to behavioral function. Can change depending on the behavior looking at; qualitative: environmental constraints, outside the body: properties of the world around us, global: not task specific (we all share them in the immediate environment) Two main classes: physical: examples: gravity, surfaces (type of terrain), room temperature, environment, weather, sociocultural.
