PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Isolation, Fishing Rod, Child Neglect
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Children gain many skills in the window from 2 to 6 years of age. Transition from inability to jump with both feet at age 2 to being able to use a. Many environmental factors influence the development of motor skills. What environment/nurture factors might influence gross and fine motor skill knife and perform rhythmic tasks by 5. Think about what activities are encouraged and discouraged within different contexts and between genders. Gross motor skill dev factors (cid:396)environment is the third teacher(cid:397) Location - one child will learn how to swim and bait a fishing rod while another learns to make snowballs and ski. Strangers, traffic, and other restrictions of urban life inhibit free play. Polluted air has a causal relationship to asthma. Harder to master than gross motor skills. Often require coordination of both sides of the brain. Practice is the only way to improve; arts and crafts is more important than you thought.
