Understanding motor development : infants, children, adolescents, adults
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Understanding motor development : infants, children, adolescents, adults
McGraw-Hill/WCB, c1998
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This text focuses on the phases of motor development, discussing several models of human development, including Piaget's and Erikson's. Describing how motor skills adapt and change from birth through to adulthood, introducing biological, affective, cognitive and behavioural aspects.
Table of Contents
- Section 1 Background: understanding motor development, an overview
- models of human development
- factors affecting motor development
- motor development, a theoretical model. Section 2 Infancy: parental factors affecting development
- parental and infant growth
- infant reflexes and rhythmical stereotypes
- rudimentary movement abilities
- infant perception. Section 3 Childhood: childhood growth and development
- fundamental movement abilities
- physical development of children
- children perception and perceptual motor development
- childhood self-concept development.
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