Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach

by V. Gregory Payne, Larry D. Isaacs

Overview

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach, 11th Edition, provides an overview of the academic field of study known as human motor development, the examination of lifelong changes in human movement. The book uses a holistic approach and emphasizes the importance of intellectual, social, and physical development and their impact on human motor development at all ages. The unique approach of this book includes the relationships between motor development and critical interactions with cognitive, social, and physical changes across the lifespan.

Organized into five parts, the book examines key topics in motor development including the relationship between cognitive and social development and motor development, factors affecting development, changes across the lifespan, and assessment in motor development with special attention being applied to adulthood and older adulthood given the dramatically increasing numbers of people in those age groups worldwide. Each chapter includes chapter objectives, a summary, a list of key concepts, questions for reflection, a list of related online resources and an extensive reference list.

Highly illustrated and written for student accessibility providing access to a fully updated companion website, which includes laboratory exercises, an instructors’ manual, a test bank, and lecture slides, Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach is essential reading for students of motor control and development, kinesiology, human performance, and students interested in physical therapy, physical education, and exercise science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032697130
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/13/2024
Edition description:	11th ed.
Pages:	524
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

V. Gregory Payne is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Kinesiology at San Jose State University, USA. He formerly served as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Applied Sciences and Arts and as Chair of the Department of Kinesiology. Payne is a specialist in human motor development with interests ranging from aging and physical activity to children’s sports and fitness. He received a BS degree from Western Illinois University and later received that institution’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He earned an MA from the University of Iowa and his PED from Indiana University. Payne worked for the Venezuelan Ministry of Education as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Venezuela following college.

As a human motor development researcher and educator, Payne has produced over 170 publications, including numerous refereed articles and 19 editions of five books, and has made nearly 300 presentations throughout the world. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and was a member of the task force that developed the NASPE National Physical Education Standards. The many honors and awards Payne has received include being selected International Professor of the Year at SJSU, receiving the Distinguished Service Award from the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and the prestigious Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Research Writing Award for research involving children’s physical activity and cardiovascular endurance. He has held offices in several organizations including President of NASPE and Chair of the Motor Development Academy. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and the Research Consortium of AAHPERD (SHAPE America), has chaired two editorial boards, and has reviewed for many journals.

Larry D. Isaacs is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Exercise Physiology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Mathematics at Wright State University, USA. Isaacs received both his BS and MS degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he specialized in human motor development and also developed a strong interest in both human physiology and exercise physiology. Following four years of public school teaching, Isaacs attended the University of Maryland and received his doctorate in 1979. He continues to serve as a reviewer for many scholarly journals. In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles and has authored, coauthored, and contributed to 21 textbooks. He is certified with the American College of Sports Medicine (Certified Exercise Physiologist) and was awarded Research Fellow status by AAHPERD/SHAPE. In addition, he has received the Wright State University Presidential Recognition award for research. Isaacs continues to work part-time as a clinical exercise physiologist at Hilton Head Hospital, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where he works with both cardiac and pulmonary patients.

Table of Contents

Part I

1. Introduction to Motor Development

2. Cognitive and Motor Development

3. Social and Motor Development

Part II

4. Prenatal Development Factors

5. Effects of Early Stimulation and Deprivation

Part III

6. Growth and Maturation

7. Physiological Changes: Health-Related Physical Fitness

8. Movement and the Changing Senses

Part IV

9. Infant Reflexes and Stereotypies

10. Voluntary Movements of Infancy

11. Fine Motor Development

12. Fundamental Locomotion Skills of Childhood

13. Fundamental Object-Control Skills of Childhood

14. Youth Sports

15. Movement in Adulthood

Part V

16. Assessment

Editorial Reviews

Revised standard textbook for an introductory undergraduate course in human motor development. The human development framework includes separate chapters on cognitive, social, and physical development, with emphasis placed on continuous interaction with motor development. This edition features expanded information concerning adults and seniors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach takes an applied approach to examining fundamental movement skill acquisition leading up to childhood and provides relatable examples on how all domains of human development impact further development and/or inhibit development of movement skills across the lifespan. The textbook provides a foundation of understanding that can be utilized by undergraduate students pursuing professions in physical therapy, occupational, physical education, applied behaviour analysis, etc.

-Marquell Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach explores motor development as it relates to the other domains of human development – and it is the only book to do that! It is key to understanding how humans learn how to move in the context of their general development, and the importance of movement across the lifespan.

-Priscila Caçola, University of Texas at Arlington

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