Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Developmental Psychology, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Prefrontal Cortex
5 Jan 2019
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Tuesday, january 9, 2018 developmental psychology textbook notes chapter 9 physical and cognitive development in middle childhood. Motor development and play: gross motor development. Exibility school age children are physically more pliable and elastic. Balance improved balance supports many athletic skills, including running, hopping, skipping, showing, kicking and the rapid changes of direction required in many team sports. Agility quicker and more accurate movements are evident in the fancy footwork of dance and cheerleading. Force older youngsters can throw and kick a ball harder and propel themselves further o the group. More e cient info processing: sex di erences. Girls have an edge in ne motor skills and hand writing and drawing and in gross motor capacities that depend on balance and agility. Boys perform better on all other gross motor skills: dominance hierarchy a stable ordering of group members that predicts who will win when con ict arises, physical activity.
