Lecture 10 Flashcards
Define Motor Learning
The study of how movements are learned or how movements are produced differently as a result of practice or experience
Define motor control
The ability to regulate or direct the mechanisms essential to movement
What is a discrete movement?
A movement with a recognizable beginning and end (throwing a ball)
What is a continuous movement?
A movement with no recognizable beginning or end until the behavior is consciously stopped (swimming and running)
What is serial movement?
Neither discrete or continuous, made up of a series of discrete movements
The proficiency perspective is derived from the premise that…
Practice results in increased speed and more consistency = less variability or error
Describe Gentile’s Taxonomy of Tasks
See chart
“Always observable and influenced by many factors” pertains to what?
Motor performance
“Internal processes reflecting individuals current capabilities” pertains to what?
Motor Learning
Describe early learning movements
stiff looking, inaccurate, inconsistent, slow and halting, inefficient
Describe late learning movements
automatic, accurate, consistent, fluid, adaptable
Define implicit learning
Improvements that occur in a person’s capability for correct responding as a result of repeated performance attempts; person is not aware of what caused the improvement
Define explicit learning
Person is aware of improvements by seeing and understanding results
Define response selection
Selection of an action and prep for action, includes preparing musculature, orienting sensory info, setting posture
Define Examination at the functional level
self report, task specific tests, age-specific tests and measures, diagnostically specific tests
