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Life span motor development /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haywood, Kathleen
Other Authors: Getchell, Nancy, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2005]
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Motor ability in children.
Motor ability.
Growth.
Motor Skills.
Psychomotor Performance.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Introduction to motor development
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Theoretical perspectives in motor development
  • Pt. 2. Physical growth and aging
  • Physical growth, maturation, and aging
  • Development and aging of body systems
  • Pt. 3. Development of motor skills across the life span
  • Early motor development
  • Development of human locomotion
  • Development of ballistic skills
  • Development of manipulative skills
  • Pt. 4. Perceptual-motor development
  • Sensory-perceptual development
  • Perception and action in development
  • Pt. 5. Functional constraints to motor development
  • Social and cultural constraints in motor development
  • Psychosocial constraints in motor development
  • Knowledge as a functional constraint in motor development
  • Pt. 6. Interaction of exercise and structural constraints
  • Development of cardiorespiratory endurance
  • Development of strength and flexibility
  • Development of body composition
  • Conclusion: Interactions among constraints.