psychomotor development
- noun
- /ˌsaɪkoʊˈmoʊtər dɪˈvɛləpmənt/
- Specialized
:
desarrollo psicomotor
- During preschool, children engage in activities designed to promote their psychomotor development, such as climbing and jumping.
- psychomotor development of children
- 36-Month psychomotor development
Examples
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The Bayley Scales of Infant Intelligence – Revised (BSID-II) were used to assess cognitive and psychomotor development at age 36 months.
Academic text (2011) -
Music educators should also be aware of the cognitive and psychomotor development of children in order to properly sequence learning objectives.
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Readiness is an issue that parents should be aware of when dealing with the psychomotor development of young children.
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Four measures were utilized to assess affective and psychomotor development.
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However, we found that the association between neighborhood poverty and psychomotor development was independent of measured exposure to chlorpyrifos and secondhand smoke.
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Thus, it was possible to determine if sociomoral and/or psychomotor development continued to improve, declined, or remained the same after the intervention.
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The purpose of this study was to implement and evaluate a curricular model designed to enhance sociomoral and psychomotor development in physical education.
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The questions on the second survey concerned diagnoses and treatments, and they solicited further data on each child's psychomotor development.
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Currently, the primary focus of physical education activity classes is centered on behavioral or psychomotor development (Harrison, Blakemore, Buck, & Pellett, 1996).
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Parents play a vital role in supporting the psychomotor development of their toddlers through play activities.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'psychomotor' (relating mental processes and physical actions) + 'development' (growth/acquisition), so the meaning — the development of coordinated mental and motor skills — follows directly from its parts. Although somewhat technical in register, the semantic combination is predictable and cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Psychomotor development is made from the parts psycho meaning 'mind' and motor meaning 'movement'. Think of a child learning to reach, walk and hold things as their 'mind' and 'movement' grow together. That's why the phrase means learning skills that need both thinking and body control.
