Motor Skills Development: Research, Adolescence, and Environment

1 Motor Skills Research

Basic motor skills consolidate, refine, and apply to various motor learning processes. This improves motor tasks, yielding strength, speed, endurance, agility, balance, and coordination. Maturity and effectiveness are seen in inception tasks, breaks, reception, beating, and kicking.

• These are distinct factors of physical fitness.
• Differences between boys and girls are increasingly less apparent.
• Improvement in perceptual-cognitive mechanisms (reaction time, decision making, attention, perception, etc.) is observed.
• Differences found between sexes are often due to socialization and expectations, but the potential for motor learning is equal for both sexes.
• Physical qualities evolve as a result of biological factors and training.

2 Motor Skills in Adolescents

Personal Situation

• Motivation
• Interests
• Level of aspiration

External Factors Driving Teens

• Past experience
• Role of family environment and group

Internal Factors

• Intellectual level
• Skills
• Somatotype, etc.

3 Configuration of Adolescents

The acquisition of motor skills and motor yield can be summarized as follows:

• Social pressure, psychological, and physiological variables define the location of individuals with their desire to acquire and improve their skills.
• Differences exist between the sexes relating to motor skills.
• Boys show greater specialization in motor skills, being reinforced by them.
• The gender gap in the ability to learn is reduced.
• Motor clumsiness manifesting in some subjects should be considered to prevent future difficulties.
• Pedagogical action is important to enhance self-esteem, cognitive development, health, aesthetics, etc.

Item 6: Environment and Development of Motor Behavior

1. Data from research on environmental stimulation.
2. Criticality and sensitivity in learning and motor development.
3. Environmental factors that influence motor development.

Objectives

1. Determine data from research on environmental stimulation.
2. Discriminate the criticality and sensitivity in learning and motor development.
3. Analyze the environmental factors that influence motor development.

The Environment and Development of Motor Skills

Malina (1980) distinguishes the following components of the environment:

• The natural component of the environment as it is.
• The components built artificially.
• The relational, human component.

Other authors distinguish between:

• Environment: A set of elements with which the child may come into contact (social, material).