I examined the effects of physical ability on motor ability and cognitive ability in infants. For the experiment, 5-year-old infants took part in the experiment and KISC and Oseretsky, a motor ability measure, were used in order to analyze the variati...
I examined the effects of physical ability on motor ability and cognitive ability in infants. For the experiment, 5-year-old infants took part in the experiment and KISC and Oseretsky, a motor ability measure, were used in order to analyze the variation rate of their motor ability and cognitive ability in each gender and group. The results through correlation analysis and regression analysis are as follows:
1. The differences between the variation rate of motor ability and of cognitive ability in each gender and group:
The variation rate of motor velocity and of motor ability ; males were higher than female infants, The variation rate of single-action performance ability and of cognitive ability ; the experimental was higher than the comparative group, The variation rate of hand-action cooperation, of motor velocity, ; The comparative was higher than the experimental group.
2. The relationship between the variation rate of motor ability and of cognitive ability in each gender and group:
The variation rate of male infants' motor ability was highly related to the variation rate of cognitive ability and female infants to the variation rate of thinking ability.
In the experimental group, the variation rate of male and female infants' static- cooperation and single-action cooperation was correlated to the variation rate of cognitive ability. In the comparative group, the variation rate of female infants' single-action cooperation was highly related to the variation rate of cognitive ability, whereas in male infants it was not correlated.
In the experimental group, the variation rate of female infants' whole motor ability was correlated to the cognitive ability, other groups had no correlation.
3. The effects of variation rate of motor ability on the variation rate of cognitive ability in each gender and group:
In the experimental group, the variation rate of male infants' static-cooperation influenced the variation rate of cognitive ability and the variation rate of female infants static cooperation, and hand-motor cooperation had influences on the variation rate of cognitive ability.
In the comparative group, the variation rate of female infants' single-motor performance ability had effects on cognitive ability, on the other hand, none of the male infants' general motor ability had an influence on cognitive ability.