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A. Letter size becomes bigger and more even with age: Actually, handwriting tends to become smaller, neater, and more uniform with age due to improved fine motor control, so this statement is incorrect.
B. Boys usually outperform girls in fine motor skills: The typical finding is the opposite; girls generally outperform boys on many fine-motor tasks in middle/late childhood.
C. Increased myelination affects the development of gross motor skills but not fine motor skills: Myelination improves speed and coordination for both gross and fine motor skills; it’s not limited to gross motor development.
D. Girls usually outperform boys in fine motor skills: Girls typically show earlier and/or better performance on fine motor tasks (handwriting, manual dexterity) during middle and late childhood.

A. Motor skills are initially influenced by biology but become increasingly dependent on environmental factors: While biology and environment both matter, this statement is overly linear and doesn’t capture the moment-to-moment, multi-factor interaction emphasized by dynamic systems theory.
B. Infants take bits and pieces of data from sensations and build representations of the world in their minds: This describes constructivist/cognitive processes (Piagetian), focusing on internal mental representations rather than dynamic, embodied action.
C. Motor development comes about through the unfolding of a genetic plan, or maturation: This is the maturational (nativist) view, which sees motor milestones as preprogrammed rather than emergent from multiple interacting factors.
D. Infants perceive something new in the environment that motivates them to act. They use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements: Dynamic systems theory emphasizes that motor skills emerge from interactions among perception, action, the body, and environment; infants use perception to continuously adjust movements.