Chapter 7 Terms

Question 1

Motor response to internal and external environmental stimuli.

Answer 1

motor behavior

Question 2

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

Answer 2

motor control

Question 3

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

Answer 3

motor learning

Question 4

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

Answer 4

motor development

Question 5

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

Answer 5

muscle synergies

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Mechanoreceptors

Question 7

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

Answer 7

proprioception

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Sensorimotor integration

Question 9

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

Answer 9

feedback

Question 10

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

Answer 10

internal feedback

Question 11

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

Answer 11

external feedback

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

neuromuscular efficiency