You follow the information processing theory of development. You are teaching your preschool class locomotor skills, and a smaller boy is having difficulty skipping. Based on your theoretical perspective, what should you do?

Increase the amount of time he practices the skill and reward good skips

Explanation:

There are clear differences between the ability of children and adults to process information throughout development, there are critical periods in the development of thinking and information processing skills, the differences lie not so much in sensory recording capacity as in the processing of information. Evidence of processing speed is still unclear, but in principle children process individual stimuli more slowly. For this reason, in the case of the child exposed in the question, you should increase the amount of time the child practices the skill and reward it for good skips.