KNES 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ontogeny, Critical Period, Visual Acuity
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Want to be skillful, want to achieve the best goal without putting in effort. Motor skill: activities or tasks that require voluntary head, body, and/or limb movement to achieve a goal, learned or developed. Ability: a general trait of capacity of an individual that is determinant of a person"s achievement potential for the performance of specific motor skills. Nurture: environment, factors in environment family, friends, culture, living conditions, education, socio economic, religious climate. We don"t are which one determines, but the question should be how they interact with each other and how they affect each other in the motor development process. Individual based, if you receive the experience, then you can develop it. As soon as the kid was born, they blind folded the kitten so they can"t see it. Stage i: all babies babble: babies babble at 5 mos. Stage ii: babies change sounds to match their native language (near the end of the 1st year)