KP100 Lecture 5: KP100 Lecture 5
12 Feb 2018
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Pre adapted: not hard wired but it is what we typically see while growing. Ends with he attainment of independent feeding and independent upright locomotion. Begins around the 4th week of life. Level of experience may often be better predictor than age. Environments can speed up the emergence of some behaviours and suppress behaviours in others . Growth: observable step by step changes i quantity & measurable changes in the. Maturation: qualitative system changes both structural and functional in the body progress toward maturity. From those points close to the body"s center tothose points close to the periphery or farthest from the body"s center. As a person ages and movement ability begins to regress the cephacaudal and proximodistal processes reverse themselves . Includes head control; body control; upright posture: locomotion. Upper and lower body control follow head. Ability to maintain upright posture frees the hands and arms for reaching and grasping.
