Discuss how motor development is shaped by biological, psychological and environmental factors.
- Created by: Meg Fraser
- Created on: 03-01-17 11:13
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- Factors affecting motor development
- Biological
- Gross motor skills emerge directly from reflexes
- Survival mechanism - programmed to pursue these skills
- Neuromusclar maturation - changes in baby's muscles at each maturational stage
- McGraw - 7 stages in the development of walking
- Gessel - 22 stages in the development of crawling
- McGraw - 7 stages in the development of walking
- Continuity between some foetal movement and later behaviour
- Thelen (1984) - Stepping movements as foetus rotates leads to crawling and walking movements
- Gross motor skills emerge directly from reflexes
- Psychological
- Dennis and Najaran (1957) - some deprived infants at an orphanage could not sit or stand
- Supports Vygotsky- social stimulation required for zone of proximal development
- Infants clearly can't develop their motor skills alone - contradicts maturational theory
- Supports Vygotsky- social stimulation required for zone of proximal development
- Dennis and Najaran (1957) - some deprived infants at an orphanage could not sit or stand
- Environmental
- Dennis and Dennis (1940) - Hopi Indians of New Mexico carried infants on their back = less time to engage in motor activity
- The infants learned to walk at the same time as the Westernised Hopi infants
- Infants could still observe others around them engaging in motor activity
- However... infants were not on their backs for more than 6 hours a day
- The infants learned to walk at the same time as the Westernised Hopi infants
- Dennis and Dennis (1940) - Hopi Indians of New Mexico carried infants on their back = less time to engage in motor activity
- Biological
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