Gross motor skills emerge directly from reflexes and proceed in a cephalocaudal and _____ direction.

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Gross motor skills develop from the center of the body outward, in a proximodistal direction. This means that skills involving the trunk and arms develop before skills involving the hands and fingers. The direction of motor skill development is not related to holophrases (one-word utterances), marasmus (malnutrition), or experience-expectant brain development.

Gross Motor Skills Emerge Directly from Reflexes and Proceed in a Cephalocaudal