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An 8 page paper. This essay discusses gender differences in development with an emphasis on children. Topics discussed include motor skills, and problem solving in social situations. The writer also comments on the differences in early adolescences. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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addressed the initial statement in your order: "Maturity differences: Girls vs. Boys" with an emphasis on children.] A number of theorists have offered typical stages of development during childhood
and adolescence. For instance, we have Piagets Cognitive Stages, Freuds Psychosexual Stages; Eriksons Psychosocial Stages and Kohlbergs Moral Development Stages. Each of these is valuable for gaining insight on typical
child and adolescence developmental processes. Each, in its way, provides a guide to the maturational process of humans. Research over the last few decades has found, however, that there may
well be differences between boys and girls in their rate of development and maturation. One area of development and maturation in which gender differences has been found is in motor
skill development (Thomas, 2000). As early as 1951, reports concluded that boys mature in this area about one year earlier than do girls (Kretzschmar and Toole, 1993). Boys tend to
have greater ability in activities such as catching, kicking and throwing earlier than girls (Kretzschmar and Toole, 1993). When throwing, boys involve their entire body in the action, which
is what is needed to throw a ball well (Kretzschmar and Toole, 1993). Girls may eventually throw just as well, they just develop this particular ability more slowly (Kretzschmar and
Toole, 1993). On the other hand, girls were found to develop the ability to hop and skip earlier and more effectively than boys (Kretzschmar and Toole, 1993). The focus and
emphasis on physical motor abilities was so strong that a motor skill developmental scale, comprised of eight motor skills, was developed (Kretzschmar and Toole, 1993). Subsequent research showed that girls
were initially ahead of boys in four skills: "catch, run, hop, and skip" (Kretzschmar and Toole, 1993, p. 46). No gender differences were found in the emergence of the other
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