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DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN SOME COMPONENTS OF A MOTOR SKILL
Author(s) -
CONNOLLY KEVIN,
BROWN KATHLEEN,
BASSETT ERYL
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1968.tb01145.x
Subject(s) - psychology , motor skill , age groups , task (project management) , developmental psychology , audiology , developmental age , age changes , demography , medicine , physiology , management , sociology , economics
Sixty children, aged 6, 8 and 10 yr., performed a target task 12 times. The results were analysed in terms of speed, accuracy and scatter. In each of the three age‐groups the girls performed significantly faster than the boys. Older children were faster than younger ones. No reliable age or sex differences were found in the accuracy component. Speed improved with practice, accuracy did not. The effect of practice was different in the 6 yr. group compared with the 8 and 10 yr. groups. The scatter of shots around the target was found to differ progressively with age and was interpreted as evidence of a change in strategy reflecting the development of a fine motor skill.