Chapter 2: Motor Learning And Recovery Of Function Flashcards
What is recovery of function?
The reacquisition of movement skills lost through injury
What is motor learning?
The study of modification and or acquisition of movement.
What are the four concepts of motor learning?
(1) learning is a process of acquiring the capability for skilled action
(2) learning results form experience or practice
(3) learning cannot be measured directly
(4) leads to permanent changes in behavior
What is learning?
A permanent change of motor behavior
What is performance?
A temporary change in motor behavior seen during practice sessions
What is declarative or explicit Memory?
The learning of facts (things places, bits of information)
What are the three subtypes to non declarative of implicit learning?
(1) non associative
(2) associative
(3) procedural
What is non associative learning and how is it broken down?
When we are given a single stimulus repeatedly. (Habituation and sensitization)
What is habituation?
A decrease in responsiveness that occurs as a result of a repeated exposure to a non painful stimulus. (ie the shirt on your back)
What is sensitization?
Sensitization is an increased responsiveness following a threatening or noxious stimulus.
When might sensitization become useful in the clinic?
Increasing a patients awareness of stimuli indicating likelihood for impending falls could help a patient quickly do balance training.
What is associative learning and how is it broken down?
Predicting relationships between stimuli/behaviors. (Classical conditioning and operant conditioning)
What is classical conditioning?
Pavlov’s dogs
What is operant conditioning?
Learning to associate behaviors to consequence.
What is procedural learning?
Learning tasks that can be consciously preformed automatically without attention or conscious thought.
What is schmidts schema theory?
Motor programs do not contain the specifics of movements, but instead contain generalized rules for a specific class of movements (in other words a generalized set of rules that can be applied to a variety of contexts)
What are the clinical implications for schema theory?
Optimal learning will occur if this task is practiced under many different conditions (allows individual to develop a set of rules for a task and then can be applied to all similar tasks)