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Tone is the permanent state of slight muscle contraction that allows for _____ and _____.
posture and balance
What is body schema?
The knowledge and awareness that one has of oneself
The body axis enables the motor aspect of….
Laterality
What are the two fundamental models/methods of psychomotor intervention?
Directed and experiential psychomotricity
Complete the sentence: The body axis is the imaginary plane that crosses our body from ___ to ___, dividing it equally into ___ and ___.
top to bottom, left and right
Define laterality.
Tendency to use one side of the body with a preference for the other at the motor level(foot, hand)and perceptive (eye,ear)
Name 1 space of intervention in experiential psychomotricity.
Sensorimotor space, symbolic space, representation space
Name the affective aspects of body image
Awareness of oneself, the environment, and others.
The body schema implies control, knowledge, and _____ about our body.
Mental representation
Experiential psychomotricity focuses on the _____ activity of children according to a situation prompted by the educator
Free and spontaneous
At what age has a child’s nervous system matured enough to experience the symmetry of their body?
3 years old
How often should you repeat psychomotor sessions with experiential psychomotricity?
At least 2 times a week
Psychomotor development is present in ____ aspects of our educational intervention
all
We observe and evaluate children’s psychomotor development based on their relation to (name 3):
Their movement, objects, space, time, others
Name 2 cognitive aspects of the body concept
Sensations, perceptions, and representation
Name the missing step in the directed psychomotor session structure:
1. Assembly
2. Essential part/development
3. ________
4. Expression/representation 5. Farewell
1. Assembly
2. Essential part/development
3. Relaxation
4. Expression/representation 5. Farewell
Complete the sentence: The body axis allows for the organization of ____.
space
Name the affective aspects of body image
Awareness of oneself, the environment, and others.
Name 3 motor aspects of the functional body schema
General coordination, tone, posture, visual-motor, balance, laterality, location, orientation, and spatiotemporal organization.
How do you encourage a child's lateralization?
Stimulate both parts of the body through motor and perceptive experiences
What is psychomotor dissociation?
Voluntary activity that involves the movement of the muscle groups simultaneously but independently from one another.
What is the essential resource for working on the structuring of time?
Rhythm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spatiotemporal structuring involves/is…
Locating, organizing, and orienting one's own body in relation to the outside world: in relation to objects and situations in space and time.
Name the 2 leading authors in experiential psychomotor skills.
Aucoutier and Lapierre
What are the 3 phases of the laterality acquisition process?
Undifferentiated phase, alternation phase, and definitive or establishment of dominance