KINE 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Prenatal Development, Neural Groove, Anatomical Terms Of Motion
19 Apr 2016
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Human motor development: an academic field of study; it is also a human lifelong process involving the progressions and regressions in our movement ability as we pass through life. Development: is generally considered to refer to changes we experience as we pass through life; changes that are qualitative, sequential, cumulative, directional, multifactorial, and individual. Qualitative: not just more of something ex: in addition to jumping further, one"s actual technique changes to be more efficient. Sequential: certain motor patterns precede others (ex: we reach before we can grasp) Directional: development has an ultimate goal (can be regressive or progressive) Individual: rate of change varies for all people. Cephalocaudal: refers to the developmental direction in which growth and movement maturation proceeds from the top of the body, the head downward toward the tail, the feet. Noticeable as it applies to prenatal growth. The head experiences greater growth earlier than rest of body.
