Motor Development Across the Lifespan: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted on Nov 2, 2024 in Physical Education

Motor Development Questionnaire

Early Adulthood (17-35 years)

Initial Adulthood Trends in Females:

  • Exuberance in movements
  • Accuracy and application of force
  • Expressiveness and rationality
  • Soft, round, and expressive spontaneity

Motor Development Trends in Early Adulthood:

  • Decrease in movement
  • Adaptation law: Reducing human development
  • Adaptation law: Exercise ensures throughput capacity
  • Improvement in motor behavior

Characteristics of Early Adulthood:

  • Full performance capability in all individuals
  • Full manifestation of motor performance capabilities in trained individuals
  • Years of rebuilding motor performance

Preschool Age (3-6 years)

What is Preschool?

  • Phase of structural change in coordinative abilities and skills
  • Improvement phase of varied motor forms
  • Phase of massive uncontrolled movements
  • Acquisition phase of multiple motor ways

Preschool Age Range:

  • 3 to 6 years

Motor Flaws in Preschool Children:

  • Combinations of movements
  • Upper limb coordination

Developed Motor Skills in Preschool:

  • Walking, climbing, running, climbing, and jumping
  • Throwing and catching

Stimulation for Motor Development in Preschool:

  • Naming exercises with children’s names (e.g., “somersault”)
  • Provide sufficient quantity and freedom of movement

School Age (6-12 years)

Frequent Movement Defects in Advanced School Age:

  • Incorrect position of the head and trunk
  • Incorrect position of legs and arms
  • Incorrect position of shoulders
  • Incorrect position of hands

Factors Influencing Motor Development (10-13 years):

  • Health of each child
  • Extra-curricular activities
  • Sex and the environment
  • Type of training

Performance Goals in Advanced School Age:

  • Seek to have the best performance

Physical Fitness Development in Advanced School Age:

  • Maximum strength and endurance
  • Maximum strength, endurance running, speed development, and more

Consequences of Physical Inactivity in School Age:

  • Limited range of motion
  • Less coordinated movements
  • Obesity
  • Lower respiratory capacity

Infancy (0-3 years)

Order of Development in Walking:

  • Move, crawl, walk

Parental Support and Infant Development:

  • Better self-esteem
  • Better social development
  • Better self-esteem, development, and social ties

Cephalocaudal Development Order:

  • Head, eyes, mouth, arms, trunk, legs

Infant vs. Adult Standing Position:

  • Hips somewhat extended, knees half bent, and trunk forward

Young Infant Stage:

  • Acquisition phase of motor ways

Fictitious Games in Small Infant Stage:

  • To exercise social behavior, fantasy, speech, and thought

Development of Throwing and Catching in Small Infant Stage:

  • Second and third year of life

Motor Development and Environment Interaction in Small Infants:

  • The child extends their circle of vision and field of experience, developing greater activity when confronted with the environment.

Inappropriate Behaviors in Small Infants (Stubbornness, Nervousness, Restlessness):

  • Little time spent outdoors
  • Excessive regulation of games

Middle Adulthood (35-65 years)

Characteristics of Untrained Individuals in Middle Adulthood:

  • Lowered resistance and strength

Old Age (65+ years)

Essential Characteristic of Old Age:

  • Notable progressive involution of motor skills

Adolescence (13-19 years)

Second Phase of Maturation:

  • First ejaculation (males) and menstruation (females)

Sexual Equality in Sport:

  • 13

Motor Development in Females (Second Stage of Maturity):

  • Smooth, coordinated movements

Stagnation in Reaction Time:

  • 17 to 18 years

Sex Differences in Motor Performance:

  • Men: Speed of movement; Women: Softer movements
  • Men: Maximum demand; Women: 20% less in locomotion

Early School Age (6-8 years)

Resistance Training for Children:

  • Progressive resistance

Peak Motor Learning Growth in Initial Schooling:

  • First and third year

Key Features of Motor Behavior in Early School Age:

  • Vivacity, constant mobility, and willingness to resolve motor tasks

Loss of Discipline in Physical Education:

  • The driving intensity of activities is insufficient
  • Class time is very monotonous

Date: May 17, 2011

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