Correct Response: A. Due to the general pattern of skeletal, muscular, and brain growth and brain development, by the age of five or six children develop increasing facility with gross-motor skills that enable them to participate in more complex and demanding physical activities, such as running, jumping, twisting, and turning. Improved motor control and gains in strength, coordination, and balance support and motivate children's participation in increasingly more demanding activity patterns.
Cardiorespiratory capacity is still somewhat limited mechanically at this age (B). Manipulative skills (C) are generally small-muscle actions that are less relevant to demanding physical activity patterns than large-muscle actions (gross-motor skills), and involuntary reflexes (D) are typically isolated responses to a stimulus rather than patterns of activity.
