KAAP301 Lecture 3: KAAP 301 notes
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What is motor development: defined as changes in motor behavior across the life span and the factors that underlie these changes. Motor behavior simply put is an observable movement: ex. Change can be : what movements are produced. Walking to running: the quality of these motor skills. Patterns: the outcomes of the movement. Lifespan model the mountain of motor development: everyone has their own mountain range and timings are different for everyone. Newell"s constraint"s model: individual and the environment and the task, see how these encourage or discourage specific movements. Motor development: 1) start with observable movement in an individual or group of individuals, 2) observe how the movement changed overtime.