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motor development  

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  • Over the first years of life, humans exhibit an increasing ability to coordinate movements of the body. The initial emergence of these motor capacities and their subsequent refinement is often referred to as motor development. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology; Motor Development]

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