Human Growth and Motor

Development: HLSC 2401U

Thursday Sept 8, 2015

Professor: Keri-Ellen Walcer, MHSc
TAs: Natalyn Hibbs
Emma Depasquale

Classes

Tuesdays 12:40-2:00pm
Thursdays 11:10am -12:30pm
UP 1500

TutorialsMUST know
which one youre in

Tutorial Sections

CRN 44105-007
Mondays 11:10am -12:00pm
Room: UL10 Library Portables
Dates: Sept.26, Oct.24, 31,
Nov.14, 28

CRN 43769-003
Fridays 2:10pm -3:00pm
Room: UL8 Library Portables
Dates: Sept.30, Oct.14, Nov.4,
18, Dec.2

CRN 43770-004
CRN 43768- 002
Mondays 10:10am-11:00am
Fridays 2:10pm- 3:00pm
Room: UL4 Library Portables
Room: UL8 Library Portables
Dates: Sept.19, Oct.3,17, Nov. Dates: Sept.23, Oct.7, 21,
7,21
Nov.11, 25
CRN 43966-006
Monday tutorial
Mondays 11:10am-12:00pm
Room: UL10 Library Portables assignments are Due
Dates: Sept.19, Oct.3,17, Nov. Friday
7,21
Friday Tutorial

assignments Due

Syllabus

Syllabus
Midterm October 18 - 15%
Final Exam TBD - 20%
Tutorial Assignments (4 x 12.5%) 50%
My Virtual Child Assignment 15%

Tutorial Assignments

Tutorial Assignments (4x12.5%) 50%

3-4 pages double spaced papers submitted on BlackBoard
electronically.
See BlackBoard for assignment descriptions
Topics
FIRST Tutorial My virtual child and how to write a
good paper
1. Dynamic Systems (12.5%)
2. Nature vs Nurture (12.5%)
3. Fundamental Motor Skills (12.5%)
4. Play and the Development of Perceptual Skills (12.5%)

My Virtual Child

My Virtual Child is a simulation of the possible

development of an individual through age 18.
It is designed to represent the normative
development of children, depict some
common experiences of children, and provide
examples of common variations in child
personality, social behavior, physical
development, and intellectual abilities.

My Virtual Child

Assignment 15% - due December 1, 2016

Raise your child to age 18 and complete all
the questions along the way.
During your first Tutorial you will get a lesson
on getting all set up
There will be some time in class to complete
the modules.

Readings

1 text book
Human Motor Development: a Lifespan
Approach 8th edition. Payne & Isaacs.

ISBN: 978-0-07-802249-4
And
My Virtual Child
Additional readings on
BlackBoard

Information

TAs are Emma Depasquale and Natalyn

Hibbs.
They will lead all the tutorials and mark your
papers
Email through BlackBoard

Office hours:
By Appointment
Email: BlackBoard

Class Expectations

Email etiquette
email through BlackBoard
Responses within 48 hours
full sentences, no abbreviations, professional
communication.
If the answer is in the syllabus, I will not respond to
your email.

Cell phones turn them off or put to silent.

Leave the room if absolutely necessary to talk

Class Expectations

Be respectful
Lunch/coffee/tea
Make sure to clean up after yourself
Lids on beverages

Resources for Students

Student Learning Centre

http://studentlife.uoit.ca/student-learni
ng/index.php
Librarian for Health Sciences

Questions?

Up to this point?

Why study child and

motor development?

Human Motor Development

Process through which one passes

throughout life
Changes in our movement ability
through the lifespan
Academic field

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Which Definition?

changes in motor behavior which reflect the

interaction of the maturing organism and its
environment (Scholarly Directions Committee,
1974)

changes in movement competencies from

infancy to adulthood and involves many
aspects of human behavior, both as they
affect movement development and as
movement development affects them (Keogh,
1977)
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Which Definition?

the change in motor behavior across the lifespan

and the processes which underlie these changes
(Clark & Whitehall, 1989)

the sequential, continuous age-related process

whereby an individual progresses from simple,
unorganized, and unskilled movement to the
achievement of highly organized, complex motor
skills and finally to the adjustment of skills that
accompanies aging (Haywood & Getchell, 2005)
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Motor Development

Academic Field

study of changes in human motor

behavior over the lifespan, the processes
that underlie these changes, and the
factors that affect them

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Working Definition

Human motor development is an

academic field of study; it is also a human
lifelong process involving the progressions
and regressions in our movement ability as
we pass through life
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Definition we will use

What is motor development?

The change in motor behaviour over the
lifespan and the processes that underlie
the change.
Dynamic process in which a motor
behaviour emerges from the many
constraints that surround the behaviour
A continuous interplay between the
organism and his/her environment, each
influencing the other. A 2-way street.

Related Areas of Study

Motor learning: relatively permanent gains in

motor skill capability associated with practice
or experience (not related to age)
Motor control: the neural, physical, and
behavioral aspects of movement

Importance of Motor Development

To understand the way people normally develop

movement skills
Help individuals improve or perfect movement
performance
To understand the way special populations develop
movement skills
Help special populations improve or perfect
movement performance
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Why Study Motor

Development?

Table 1-1

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Domains

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Domains

Cognitive domain
Concerns human intellectual development

Affective domain
Concerned with the social and emotional aspects
of human development

Motor domain
Development of human movement and factors
that affect that development

Physical domain
All types of physical/bodily change
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Elements of Developmental Change

Development change is not

just more of something
Sequential
Certain motor patterns precede
others
Cumulative
Behaviors are additive
Directional
Development has an ultimate
goal
Multifactorial No single factor direct change
Individual
Rate of change varies for all
people
Qualitative

Table 1-2

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Questions?

See you next week