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| Our reasoning, thought process, ability to acquire knowledge. |
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| any form of human movement |
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| interaction between mind and human movement |
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| Adjusting to the demands of the environment. |
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| Assimilation and Accommodation |
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| Child sees zebra and calls it a horse. Assimilated this information into her schema for horse. When she eventually learns the name Zebra, she has accomodated the information. |
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| Piaget's Four Stages of Cognitive Developement |
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Sensorimotor- 0-2
Properational- 2-7
Concrete Operational- 7-11
Formal Operational- Adolescence- Adulthood |
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| Aquired through body MOVEMENT |
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| Implications of Sensorimotor |
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| Design environment for crawling, climbing, pushing, pulling |
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Language and Motor Skills
Abilities Improve Quickly |
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| Properational Cognitive Thinking Characteristics |
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| Egocentric thoughts and speech/ incapable of conservation |
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| Implications of Preoperational Stage |
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Strong focus on environmental design
Simple Instruction |
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| Conservation, Other Points of View, Basic problem solving, sorting |
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| Learning Acquired in Concrete Operational |
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| Movement, Life Experiences, Observing and Interacting |
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| Implications for Concrete Operations |
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| Combine Skills, Introduce new skills, Lead up games, problem solving |
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| Motor Learning/ Peformance |
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| ________ is a process that occurs over many ________ attempts. |
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| Five Performance Variables |
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| Improvement, Consistency, Stability, Persistence, Adaptability |
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| Cognitive, Associative, Automatic |
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| "Knowing Factual Knowledge" |
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| Three basic schemes under which knowledge is organized. |
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| Strategies teaches use to enhance motor-skill -- related memory of young childeren. |
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| Demonstrate, Visual Display, Link, Knowledge, Cues |
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| Time between onset of stimulus and beginning of movement |
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Why are girls typically taller than boys betwen the ages of 10 and 13 years of age?
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Reach puberty at a much younger age than males. |
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| Identify and briefly describe the two major causes of decreases in height around middle age? |
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Disc Degeneration
Decrease of cartilage in knees and back |
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| Age Range and Growth in inches. |
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| Growth Retardation during childhood and adolescence may indicate what? |
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| Malnutrition, Child Abuse, Heart or other diseases, Endocrine system failing |
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| Typical increase in body weight in childhood |
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| Increase in body weight during adolescence |
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| Dramatic Increase in Body Weight |
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Amount of weight increases for boys
Amount of weight increases for girls |
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| Ratio of height to weight |
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| What are two ways to calculate BMI? |
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Convert LBS to KG
Solve BMI equation |
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| What is the purpose and value of BMI? |
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| Measure body fatness; monitors population health risk |
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| Should BMI be used as measure of body fatness? |
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| NO, because some people have different ratios of muscle with their given height |
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| BMI typically reaches a low point at what age? |
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| Adolescent Awkwardness/ How it affects performance? |
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| 6 month disruption in motor perfomance (during fastest height growth period) |
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| At birth the head is what percentage of the total body length? |
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| Why is it difficult for childeren to maintain their balance when performing certain motor tasks? |
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| They have a higher center of gravity, top heavy, and small base |
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| Three Classifications of Overall Body Physiques |
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Endomorph
Mesomorph
Ectomorph |
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| Why do girls perform better on movement task that involve balancing? |
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| Shorter Legs and Wider Pelvis |
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| Why do boys perform better than girls on movement task involving running and jumping? |
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| Longer legs and more muscle mass |
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| When the rate of deposit is greater than the rate of removal. |
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| What is osteoporosis and how can it be slowed or prevented? |
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| A loss of bone mineral density. Exercise. |
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