Legibility of Writing Gradually Increases as Children

question 86

Multiple Choice

Legibility of writing gradually increases as children

• A) use larger, more uniform lettering.
• B) produce more accurate letters with uniform height and spacing.
• C) learn to make strokes with their entire arm.
• D) learn to accurately integrate two-dimensional shapes.

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Definitions:

Pain Gate

Hypothetical neural circuit in which activity in fine-touch and pressure pathways diminishes the activity in pain and temperature pathways.

Somatosensory Receptors

Somatosensory receptors are sensory cells located in the skin, muscles, and organs that detect touch, temperature, pain, and body position.

Somatosensation

The body's ability to sense touch, temperature, body position, and pain, often referred to as the sense of touch.

Caudate Putamen

A brain structure that is part of the basal ganglia, involved in various functions including motor control and learning processes.