chapter 7 lesson 6 Flashcards
Motor behavior
Motor response to internal and external environmental stimuli.
Motor control
How the central nervous system integrates internal and external sensory information with previous experiences to produce a motor response.
Motor learning
Integration of motor control processes through practice and experience, leading to a relatively permanent change in the capacity to produce skilled motor behavior.
Motor development
Change in skilled motor behavior over time throughout the life span.
Muscle synergies
Groups of muscles that are recruited simultaneously by the central nervous system to provide movement.
Mechanoreceptors
Specialized structures that respond to mechanical forces (touch and pressure) within tissues and then transmit signals through sensory nerves.
Proprioception
The body’s ability to naturally sense its general orientation and relative position of its parts.
Sensorimotor integration
is the ability of the nervous system to gather and interpret sensory information and to select and execute the proper motor response
what are the two types of sensory feed back
sensory (internal) and augmented (External)
Internal feedback
Process whereby sensory information is used by the body to reactively monitor movement and the environment.
External feedback
Information provided by some external source, such as a fitness professional, video, mirror, or heart rate monitor, to supplement the internal environment.