Resemblance in Motor Skill Performance of Sixth Graders and their Parents

Abstract

Twenty sixth-grade students and both of their natural parents were tested on five simple and novel motor skills: pursuit rotor-preferred hand, pursuit rotor nonpreferred hand, tapping board, mirror peg turn, and the synchronized tapping board. The results revealed a lack of familial resemblance in performance on all tasks as indicated by the low interfamily correlations. Parent performance exceeded that of their children and each group's performance improved over practice on all of the tasks.