PSYC 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fine Motor Skill, Nova Scotia Trunk 2, Metacognition
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Chapter six off to school: cognitive and physical development in middle childhood. Most children gain about 2-3 inches in height and 8 pounds in weight per year. Boys and girls are about the same size during the elementary-school years. Girls are more likely to enter puberty toward the end of the elementary-school. At ages 11-12 the average girl is about 1/2 inch taller than the average boy. Most increase in height comes from legs, not from the trunk. Children at 11 can throw a ball three times farther than at 6, and jump twice as. Fine motor skill improvement occurs for both genders. Girls on average are better in fine motor skills (handwriting) and gross motor. Boys on average are better in other gross motor skills (strength, throwing, <50% of us elementary school children meet national fitness standards. 1. a. i. 1. on objects or ideas that yield a consistent results. Can perform mental operations - actions that can be performed.
