Chapter 5: Motor behaviors

Question 1

Sensorimotor integration

Answer 1

How the muscular and nervous system cooperates to gather and interpret information in order to execute the movement.

Question 2

Proprioception

Answer 2

This is the cumulative sensory input to the CNS (Central nervous system) from all of the various mechanoreceptors that can sense limb movement and body position. Proprioception training improves coordination, posture, and balance

Question 3

Muscle synergies

Answer 3

Muscles that are controlled by the central nervous system in order to produce the same movements.

Question 4

Motor development

Answer 4

The maturation of muscle coordination.

Question 5

Motor learning

Answer 5

The process of improving one’s motor skills with practice. This results in lasting changes and one’s overall capability of responding.

Question 6

Motor control

Answer 6

The process where people use cognition in order to coordinate the muscles and limbs of the body.

Question 7

Motor behavior

Answer 7

esponse to external and internal stimuli from the environment. The overall study of motor development, motor learning and motor control (a.k.a. movement).

Question 8

Motor learning

Answer 8

External feedback: This is information that one will get about their performance from external sources. Usually visual, verbal or written.
Internal feedback: This is how you personally feel after you have practice or performed a certain skill.
Feedback: This is a biological system where the response or the output affects the initial input. Your sensory system gathers input from your motor system in order to adapt and learn new motor skills.