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📌 Gross motor skills coordinate large muscle groups for balance, locomotion, and postural control, whereas fine motor skills use small muscle groups, especially in the hands and fingers, including hand-eye coordination.
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1. What does psychomotor development encompass across a person’s lifespan?
2. Which sequence correctly lists the three laws of motor maturation?
3. Which description best distinguishes hypertonia from hypotonia?
What is psychomotor development?
The set of all changes in a person's motor activity throughout life.
What are the three laws of motor maturation?
The cephalocaudal, proximodistal, and general-to-specific laws.
What is muscle tone?
Muscle tone is slight tension in a muscle at rest or during activity.
How does stability develop in infants from birth to 24 months?
Stability progresses from primary reflexes to sitting, standing, walking, and full postural control by 24 months.
Psychomotor development
Motor activity changes throughout life
Psychomotricity
Links movement, emotions, cognition
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