KIN 4512 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motor Skill, Rate Limiting, Motor Control

• School: LSU
• Department: Kinesiology: Professional Courses/Basic Activity Courses
• Course: KIN 4512
• Professor: P.Acharya

Document Summary

History of maturational development: invariable, genetically determined sequence of development, individuals can have unique timing. Arnold gessell (1930s: gesell believed the biological process (genetic and hereditary) is the main driver of human motor development; not the environment; not the environment, co-twin control strategy, youtube video on moodle. Information processing (1970s: brain is like a complex computer, what drives motor development, how do new skills emerge, perceptual motor development, motor development was result of some external environmental input: Perception of stimulus (sense of processing, organizing and integrating information) What are the rate limiting factor: underdevelopment of muscular or motor control system, a 40 year old male adult has difficulty in walking and running. What could the rate limiting factor be: condition or disease such as arthritis or muscular skeletal system. Approaches to motor development deficiency: 3 perspectives (maturational, information processing, ecological, what perspective(s) most represent our approach to studying motor development in this course (newell"s model of constraints, ecological perspective.