Increased Myelination of the Nervous System Is Reflected in the Improvement

question 95

Essay

Increased myelination of the nervous system is reflected in the improvement of fine motor skills during middle and late childhood.List some skills found in 10- to 12-year-old children.

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Definitions:

Field Settings

Real-world environments outside of the laboratory where research is conducted or observations are made in a natural context.

Quasi-Experimental Design

A research design that attempts to establish a cause-and-effect relationship but does not employ random assignment to conditions, making it less strict than a true experimental design.

Random Assignment

The process of allocating participants randomly to different groups in an experiment to ensure each group is similar at the start.

Independent Variables

The variables in an experiment that are manipulated by the researcher to explore their effect on dependent variables.