KIN 4512 FINAL EXAM 2 QUESTIONS
AND ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026 UPDATED.
The changes in motor behavior over the lifespan and the processes that underlie these changes
- Answer Motor development
Skillful movement must be ______, ________, and ________ - Answer efficient, adaptable,
consistent
Age-related, not dependent
Not an inverted U
Progressive with lifelong adaptions
sequential, cumulative - Answer Development
The "loom" of motor development: interweaving of the threads to form designs or patterns -
Answer Gessell (1946)
Tree metaphor:
Cognitive, perceptual, motor, verbal
The components make up the trunk and the branches where the specialized skills that come
from them, the higher ones are more specialized skills - Answer Cratty (1970)
"mind- as- computer": information processing theory of intellectual development
Issues: indicates development is static, dependent on outside agents to build and program the
system - Answer Simon (1962)
Development is dynamic, nonlinear, and self-organizing
"Mountain Stream"
Thelen & Smith - Answer Developmental systems theory
There are two places where people get their influence, heredity and the environment. Heredity
(closed off) and environment (open). They are both building on the movement phases then the
, Competence in FMS are necessary in order to be able to engage in sports and games. Children
must break through the ___________ - Answer proficiency barrier
10,000 hours deliberate practice to become world-class (10,000 rule) - Answer Malcolm
Gladwell- Outliers
Practice accounts for 12% of performance differences - Answer Macnamara (2014)
maximizing your time, every time. Very specialized practice. - Answer Deliberate practice
Skills that don't really changes (chess, playing classical music) - Answer Stable activities
you have to take in a lot of different characteristics you have to take in (sports) - Answer
Unstable activities
Development is seen as an emergent product of self-organizing process wherein changing
constraints define the potentialities and behavioral options at each point in the lifespan -
Answer Fits Developmental systems theory
Clark (1994): six stages - Answer reflexive
pre-adapted
fundamental patterns
context specific
skillful
compensation
3rd gestational month- 2 weeks after birth
Goals: facilitate survival and open a dialogue with the environment
Pre and post natal reflexive periods: spontaneous movements and reflexive movements
(primitive or postural) - Answer Reflexive
2 wks to 1 year
Onset of voluntary movement
AND ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026 UPDATED.
The changes in motor behavior over the lifespan and the processes that underlie these changes
- Answer Motor development
Skillful movement must be ______, ________, and ________ - Answer efficient, adaptable,
consistent
Age-related, not dependent
Not an inverted U
Progressive with lifelong adaptions
sequential, cumulative - Answer Development
The "loom" of motor development: interweaving of the threads to form designs or patterns -
Answer Gessell (1946)
Tree metaphor:
Cognitive, perceptual, motor, verbal
The components make up the trunk and the branches where the specialized skills that come
from them, the higher ones are more specialized skills - Answer Cratty (1970)
"mind- as- computer": information processing theory of intellectual development
Issues: indicates development is static, dependent on outside agents to build and program the
system - Answer Simon (1962)
Development is dynamic, nonlinear, and self-organizing
"Mountain Stream"
Thelen & Smith - Answer Developmental systems theory
There are two places where people get their influence, heredity and the environment. Heredity
(closed off) and environment (open). They are both building on the movement phases then the
, Competence in FMS are necessary in order to be able to engage in sports and games. Children
must break through the ___________ - Answer proficiency barrier
10,000 hours deliberate practice to become world-class (10,000 rule) - Answer Malcolm
Gladwell- Outliers
Practice accounts for 12% of performance differences - Answer Macnamara (2014)
maximizing your time, every time. Very specialized practice. - Answer Deliberate practice
Skills that don't really changes (chess, playing classical music) - Answer Stable activities
you have to take in a lot of different characteristics you have to take in (sports) - Answer
Unstable activities
Development is seen as an emergent product of self-organizing process wherein changing
constraints define the potentialities and behavioral options at each point in the lifespan -
Answer Fits Developmental systems theory
Clark (1994): six stages - Answer reflexive
pre-adapted
fundamental patterns
context specific
skillful
compensation
3rd gestational month- 2 weeks after birth
Goals: facilitate survival and open a dialogue with the environment
Pre and post natal reflexive periods: spontaneous movements and reflexive movements
(primitive or postural) - Answer Reflexive
2 wks to 1 year
Onset of voluntary movement
