Physical Development

Middle Childhood: Physical & Cognitive Development

Personality development after physical abuse.

Personality development after child abuse was studied in 39 children who had, on average, been admitted to hospital five and a half years previously. In contrast to a control group, the abused children had fewer friends, lower ambitions, and lower self esteem. They were more serious, shy, and subdued on a personality assessment and were more likely than the control children to have behaviour di...

Motor and Physical Development: Locomotion

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The physical development of mongols.

Because it is a well differentiated and common form of mental defect, mongolism has been exhaustively studied. Most of the studies, however, have been directed at the possible aetiology of this condition. This paper is not concerned with aetiological problems but is a discussion of two purely physical findings in mongol boys, height and skeletal age. Some findings in adult male mongols have bee...

Research on Development of Physical Fitness in Physical Education Teaching

The physical fitness quality is the basis of the students' comprehensive quality, and it is the essential condition of the development of individual growth. But today's school is more emphasis on the students' learning culture results instead of physical education. With the growth of the level of life, physical quality has declined. This paper expatiates the reason of contemporary students' phy...