PSYC 3082 Chapter : Chapter 1
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Depends on underlying processes: what does this mean, continuous it never stops, age-related stages that are related to age, sequential it happens in steps or stages, everything builds on, the underlying processes environmental or biological influences itself. Motor development: more natural than motor learning. Motor learning: more influenced by something outside: practicing a skill, how you practice, experience. Motor behavior: used to describe a more global scale: collectively the previous two as well. Motor control: controlling the actions through muscles, how the brain controls the height, weight: quantitative. Developmental terminology muscles to do a specific action muscle growth and having the ability to use it. Physical growth physical characteristics that grow as you change, fat, Maturation emotional growth: qualitative, biological: reproduction, how the systems are working together, you"ve accumulated a certain amount of. Aging chronological timeline, changes in the system: grow max . Newell"s model of constraints: shape movement, limit or discourage certain movements, permit or encourage other movements.