Psychomotor Development in Early Childhood

📋 Course Outline

1. Psychomotor Foundations and Maturation
2. Stability and Postural Control
3. Reflexes and Locomotor Development
4. Manipulation and Graphomotor Skills
5. Psychomotor Organization
6. Psychomotor Development in the Curriculum
7. Sensation and Perception
8. Educational Intervention Principles
9. Psychomotor Learning Activities

📖 1. Psychomotor Foundations and Maturation

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Psychomotor development : Ameijeiras, 2002 — the set of all changes occurring in a person's motor activity throughout life
• Psychomotricity : Pacheco, 2015 — studies the relationship between bodily movement, emotions, and cognitive processes

★ Must-know

• The three laws of motor maturation are:
  • the cephalocaudal law
  • the proximodistal law
  • the general-to-specific law

📌 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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