Individualized exercise programs stressing strength and balance have been ineffective in reducing the risk of falling in older adults.

Which of the following is NOT a type of kinesthetic receptor?

New walkers need a year of walking experience before they can use the strategy of taking a step or two to regain balance when threatened to avoid falling.

Assuming the sequential movements are well timed, lag in the upper arm and forearm allows momentum to be transferred from proximal body parts to successively more distal body parts, increasing the speed of movement in the more distal body parts.

Which of the following task constraints makes catching more difficult for young children?

Which of the following is the fastest growing in infancy and childhood?

Deficiencies of hormones rather than excesses of hormones disturb the normal process of growth and development.

On visual-kinesthetic perception tasks, children find the task more difficult if the information is presented first in the kinesthetic sense.

Girls as a group do not use as advanced throwing patterns as boys, but girls benefit from instruction and practice.

Which of the following determine(s) how much catch-up growth takes place once a positive environment is restored following a period of retarded growth (due to a negative influence)? Select all that apply.