KNSS 307(Fundamental Concepts)
Change in movement behavior
- Continuous
- age related
- sequential
Motor learning
relitively permanebt gains in motor skill capability associated with practice or experience
Motor control
the neural , physical, and behavioral aspects of movement
Physical growth
Quatitive increase in size or body mass
physical maturation
qualitive advance in biological makeup; cell, organ, or system advancement in biochemical composition
aging
process occurring with passage of time leading to loss of adaptability or full function and eventually to death
Newell's Model
- individual constaints; stucturale and functional
- enviromental constraints
- task constraints
Constraints
- discorage or limit certain movements
- encourage or permit other movemnts
- shape movement- channel away from some movements while toward others
individual constaints: Structural
related to body's structure: height, muscle mass
Individual Constraints: Functional
related to behavioral function: attention, motivation
Enviromental Constraints
properties of the enviroment:
- external
- global
- physical: gravity, surfaces
- sociocultural: gender role, cultural norms
Task Constraints
specific task requirment or goal
- external
- not related to individual
related specifically to task or skill
- goal of the task
- rules guiding task preformance
- equipment
Changing developmental trajectories
we can plot the change in behavior or overtime or age: time age horizontal axis, behavior on vertical axis
Motor Development: longitudinal
individual or group is observed over time
- study canrequire lengthy observation
motor development: cross-sectional
individual or groups of differents ages are obseved
- change is inferred not actually observed
motor develoments: sequential
aka mixed longitudinal
- mini longitudinal studies with overlapping ages