ISBN | Product | Product | Price CHF | Available | |
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Lifelong Motor Development |
9781292027906 Lifelong Motor Development |
78.60 |
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Lifelong Motor Development, Sixth Edition, is a comprehensive, science-based text covering background, theory, and research in the field of physical growth and motor behavior across the life span, as well as the practical application of these concepts. The Sixth Edition focuses on the concept that the study of motor development is the study of change. In order to truly understand the multicausal and complex nature of motor development, this book was created and continues with the goal of introducing students to not a single theoretical explanation, but the most prominent theories and views that underscore our understanding of change in motor development. This approach helps the Sixth Edition maintain its place as still the most scientific, contemporary, and applicable text of its kind.
The Sixth Edition focuses on the notion that the study of motor development is truly the study of change. It does so in the following ways:
Also New to this Edition:
I. AN OVERVIEW OF LIFELONG HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
1. Introduction to the Developmental Perspective
II. BIOLOGICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
2. Heredity and Neurological Changes
3. Physical Growth Changes
4. Physiological Changes
5. Factors Affecting Growth and Development
III. PERCEPTION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING
6. Perceptual Development
7. Information Processing and Motor Control
IV. MOTOR BEHAVIOR ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
8. Early Movement Behavior
9. Motor Behavior During Early Childhood
10. Motor Behavior During Later Childhood and Adolescence
11. Motor Behavior in the Adult Years
V. ASSESSING CHANGE
12. Assessment
VI. SOCIOCULTURAL INFLUENCES ON MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
13. Sociocultural Influences on Motor Development