Understanding Motor Development: Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adults
Edition: 9
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 675
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For over forty years Understanding Motor Development: Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adults has been one of the leading textbooks in motor development across the lifespan. This fully digital ninth edition provides readers with both an explanatory and a descriptive basis for the processes of motor development. Covering the entire lifespan, this text focuses on the phases of motor development and provides a solid introduction to the biological, affective, cognitive, and behavioral aspects within each developmental stage. Readers are presented with the most up-to-date research and theory related to the relationships among growth, maturation, motor performance, motor development, and the person’s environment using a constraints and dynamical systems perspective, while the Triangulated Hourglass Model is used as a consistent conceptual framework that clearly defines infant, childhood, adolescent, and adult motor development.
Module 1 – Introducing A Developmental Perspective
1. Background To Motor Development
2. Motor Development Models And Theories Across The Lifespan
Module 2 – Infancy
3. Prenatal Development And Infant Growth
4. Prenatal Factors Affecting Development
5. Infant Reflexes And Stereotypies
6. Rudimentary Movements Of Infancy
7. Infant Perception
Module 3 – Childhood
8. Childhood Growth And Development
9. Development of Fundamental Movement: Manipulation Skills
10. Development Of Fundamental Motor Skills: Locomotion
11. Perceptual Motor Development And Motor Skill Interventions
12. Physical Development and Fitness
Module 4 – Adolescence
13. Adolescent Growth, Puberty, And Reproductive Maturity
14. Specialized Movement Skills And Developmental Issues During Adolescence
15. Fitness and Motor-related Changes During Adolescence
Module 5 – Adulthood & Aging
16. Physiological And Psychosocial Development In Adults
17. Motor Performance In Adults