CLD 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Body Composition, Motor Learning, Motor Control
24 Jan 2017
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Chapter 1 understanding motor development: an overview (cid:862)motor de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Continuous change in motor behaviour throughout the life cycle, brought about by interaction among the requirements of the movement task, the biology of the individual, and the conditions of the learning environment. Continuous/discontinuous process: theorist have different opinions. All change from conception to death: development starts when egg and sperm meets, change in function. Impact individual at different rates: depends on their abilities (innate), skills (environmental), and tasks. Life span development is age related, but not age dependent. Maturational period (1930s and 1940s: biology = ability = maturation, theorist believed newborns were born with abilities (proven disproven later, sequence in development is biological and it is the same with all cultures. In twin studies, the sequence in development was the same but the rate on how they obtained it is different. Descriptive period (1950s 1970s: describing the process; what is behind the skills. January 23, 2017: explaining why and how.
