Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts

Question 1

Change in movement behavior is what?

Answer 1

Continuous, sequential, age related

Question 2

What is Motor learning?

Answer 2

relatively permanent gains in motor skill capability associated with practice or experience

Question 3

what is motor control?

Answer 3

The neural, physical and behavioral aspects of movement

Question 4

What is Physical Growth?

Answer 4

quantitive increase in size or body mass

Question 5

what is physical maturation

Answer 5

qualitative advance in
biological makeup or biochemical
composition (cell, organ, or system)

Question 6

Aging…

Answer 6

occurs with passage of time, leading
to loss of adaptability or full function and eventually to death

Question 7

Identify similarities between motor learning, control, and growth and maturation

Question 8

Identify differences between motor learning, control, and growth and maturation

Question 9

Describe Newells Model of Constraints

Question 10

Describe Constraints

Question 11

give an example of an individual constraint

Question 12

give an example of a task constraint

Question 13

give an example of a environment constraint

Question 14

describe individual constraints

Question 15

describe environmental constraints

Question 16

describe task constraints

Question 17

what is the significance of constraint interactions

Question 18

How do we track development

Question 19

describe a developmental trajectory

Question 20

what is the proficiency barrier and who proposed it

Question 21

what are three research designs?

Question 22

What is universality?

Question 23

what is Variability