Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Jean Piaget, Motor Skill

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3347A/B
• Professor: Vincent Liardi

Document Summary

G&d chapter 11- perception and action in development. People who study motor development suspect that movement is important to perceptual development. Movement is necessary for the coupling/linking of perception and movement. Perceptual motor programs: anything that ties perceptual abilities w/ our ability to move. Can include: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, laterality etc. Perceptual motor theories of the 1960s: speculated that learning disabilities could be remediated through perceptual motor programs ex) interactive games where they move and increase perception. They were flawed due to attention bias, it wasn"t the program that was bringing them back it was the extra attention they were getting. So only a small amount of evidence exists that perceptual motor-programs improved classroom skills: jean piaget (1952) Said reality is constructed by relating action to sensory information. He was the founder of the theory of perceptual motor development.