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Critically evaluate the cross cultural study of motor development. Studying psychology across cultures is not a new phenomenon, as Mead's early 1928 comparative study of North American and Samoan development illustrates. As the availability of travel became more apparent, this allowed the discipline to stretch to new horizons. Different aspects of child development became analytical features such as intelligence, cognition, language and so forth. One aspect central to this paper is an infant's motor development. Clark, Kreutzberg and Chee (1977) illustrated how motor skills can be accelerated by training, thus not wholly innate. Studies such as these show the developmental field the potential to investigate differences and similarities in the context surrounding the motor behaviour and discovering what abilities are culturally transmitted and/or genetically transmitted (Berry, Poortinga, Segall, and Dasen, 2002). The importance of this is seeking methods to encourage advancements in physical abilities at an early age that may be...

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