KNES 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motor Skill
3 Jan 2017
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Nature: the hereditary information received from parents at the moment of conception that signals the body to grow and affects our characteristics and skills. Nurture: the complex environmental forces of the physical and social world that individuals encounter in their homes, neighborhoods, schools and communities. Individuals are born with 99. 9% of the same genetic material, but acquire and express motor skills with varying levels of competency. Whether our motor behavior is a product of motor skill developed by practicing over and over again or a result of our motor ability, which is genetically determined. Motor skills: activities or tasks that require voluntary movement to achieve a specific purpose or goal: this is the nurture perspective. Abilities: genetically determined and by large, unmodified by experience: nature perspective. Meltzof and moore infants facial imitation than was thought possible: experiment showed infant imitation of adults at a much earlier age, infants between 12 and 21 days can imitate both facial and manual gestures.
