Chapter 7: Lesson 6 Flashcards

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Motor behavior

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Motor response to internal and external environmental stimuli.

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Motor control

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How the central nervous system integrates internal and external sensory information with previous experiences to produce a motor response.

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Motor learning

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Integration of motor control processes through practice and experience, leading to a relatively permanent change in the capacity to produce skilled motor behavior.

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Motor development

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Change in skilled motor behavior over time throughout the life span.

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Muscle synergies

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Groups of muscles that are recruited simultaneously by the central nervous system to provide movement.

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Mechanoreceptors

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Specialized structures that respond to mechanical forces (touch and pressure) within tissues and then transmit signals through sensory nerves.

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Proprioception

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The body’s ability to naturally sense its general orientation and relative position of its parts.

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Sensorimotor integration

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Cooperation of the nervous and muscular system in gathering and interpreting information and executing movement.

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Feedback

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Use of sensory information and sensorimotor integration to help the human movement system in motor learning.

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Internal feedback

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Process whereby sensory information is used by the body to reactively monitor movement and the environment.

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External feedback

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Information provided by some external source, such as a fitness professional, video, mirror, or heart rate monitor, to supplement the internal environment.

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Neuromuscular efficiency

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The ability of the nervous system to recruit the correct muscles to produce force, reduce force, and dynamically stabilize the body’s structure in all three planes of motion.

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