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Motor skill means

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The movement of muscles

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The learned abilities to move some part of the body, in actions ranging from a large leap to a flicker of the eyelid.

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Moror skills

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Motor skills begin with

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reflexes

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Reflexes become skills

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if they are practiced and encouraged

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Deliberate actions that coordinate many parts of the body, producing large movements, are called

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Gross Motor Skills

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Gross motor skills emerge directly from

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reflexes and proceed first control their heads, lifting them up to look around. Then they control their upper bodies, their arms, and finally their legs and feet

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cephalocaudal

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Head-down direction

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proximodistal

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center-out direction.

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Sit

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6-7.5

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Stand holding

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7.4-9.4

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Crawl

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8-10

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Stand alone

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10.8-13.48-10

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Walk well

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12-14.4

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Walk backward

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15-17

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Run

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18-2015-17

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Jump up

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26-29

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age norms are affected by

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culture and cohort.

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Being very late for gross motor skills

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is a cause for concern.

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Jumping up, with a three-month age range for acquisition. The reason is that

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the older a child is, the more impact both nature and nurture have.

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Sit propped in a lap

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3months

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sit unsupported

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6 months

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novice sitting and standing infants lose balance just from

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turning their heads or lifting their arms”

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Vision adjusts

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Balance

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Crawling is Another example of the

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head-down and center-out direction of skill mastery. As they gain muscle strength

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As Babies want to move forward to explore objects just out of reach their

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Motivation is crucial:

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tummy time the infant has had to develop the muscles is affected by

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The caregiver’s culture

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falls are common but harmless in infancy, because

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bodies are padded, bones are flexible, and the floor is nearby.

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In late adulthood falls can be

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fatal.

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inching, bear-walking, scooting, creeping, or crawling are

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Prewalking skills

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free hands a drive that underlies every motor skill:

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Babies are powerfully motivated to do whatever they can as soon as they can.

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the dynamic-systems perspective highlights the interaction of 1.strength, 2.maturation, and 3.practice beyond

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motivation

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The ability to walk is provided opportunity by caregivers and

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obsessive practice, barefoot or not, at home or in stores, on sidewalks or streets, on lawns or in mud.

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The first leg movements occur w.o much thought —kicking (alternating legs at birth and then both legs together or one leg repeatedly at about 3 months)

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Brain maturation

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Second As the brain matures to allow walking

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deliberate and coordinated leg action becomes possible.

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practice, not merely ___underlies improvements. .

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maturation

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Small body movements are called

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Fine Motor Skills

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The most valued fine motor skills are

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finger movements, enabling humans to write, draw, type, tie, and so on. Movements of the tongue, jaw, lips, and toes are fine movements, too.

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fine motor skills

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Physical abilities involving small body movements, especially of the hands and fingers, such as drawing and picking up a coin. fine means “small.”

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Newborns have a strong reflexive grasp but for hand skills they

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lack control

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During their first two months, babies excitedly stare and wave their arms at

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objects dangling within reach.

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By 3 months, baby can touch dangling objects but

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limited eye-hand coordination, they cannot yet grab and hold on unless an object is placed in their hands.

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Grasps rattle when placed in hand

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3-4 months

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From a developmental perspective 
ability to grab her own toes requires

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coordination of feet and fingers, determination and concentration.

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Reaches to hold an object

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4.5-6 months

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Thumb and finger grasp

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8-10 months: end/year 1 and throughout 2, baby master using thumb and forefinger to pick up tiny objects, self-feeding with hands, then fingers, then utensils.

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Stacks two blocks

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15-21 months

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Imitates vertical line (drawing)

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30-39 months

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infants sometimes grab, but their timing is off: close their hands too early or too late

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4 months

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concentrated and deliberate most babies can reach, grab, and grasp almost any object Some from one hand to the other.

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6 months

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the older an infant is,

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the more impact both nature and nurture have jumping up may be three months either way.

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every motor skill, progresses by

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brain/ muscle maturation, practice, cultural and caregiver opportunity.

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mittens w/Velcro allow grabbing and infants master

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hand skills sooner than usual. Their perception advances as well

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generally, all senses and motor skills expand the baby’s

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cognitive awareness, with practice advancing both skill and cognition

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Motor skill practice is especially obvious in the first year, when “infants

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flap their arms, rotate their hands, and wiggle their fingers, and exhibit bouts of rhythmical waving, rubbing, and banging while holding objects”

Question 55

Cultural Variations show
The importance of considering together all the factors that relate to it (context)

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practice of every motor skill advances development, not only of the skill but overall

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Remember that difference is not deficit. However, slow development relative to local norms may indicate

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a problem that needs attention;

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lags are much easier to remedy during infancy than

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later on.

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remember the dynamic systems of senses and motor skills: .

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If one sense or motor skill is impaired, other parts are affected as well

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Fine motor skills are aided by the ability to ;

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sit

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language development depends on ;

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hearing

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reading depends on

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vision

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careful monitoring of basic sensory and motor skills in infancy is part of

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good infant care.

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Finally,  One single mother who experienced postpartum depression thought:

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I had other problems. I hadn’t any money, debt, family fighting  I wasn’t such a good mother. Love the baby and everything will be fine, the baby didn’t respond. I’m affectionate, the baby didn’t like affection.

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Can the father be of any practical help in the birth process?

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Usually not, unless experienced, well taught,w/emotional support for mother and newborn

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