LECTURE 6

Question 1

Two challenges for motor control researchers, coaches, teachers, practitioners…

Answer 1

Develop and disseminate new, valid, reliable knowledge appropriate for audience.
Interpret new knowledge with respect to evaluating, understanding and improving human motor performance.

Question 2

Validity

Answer 2

The degree to which a test measures what it purports to measure

Question 3

Measures of validity

Answer 3

Variance, Standard Deviation, Range, Coefficient of variation, Z-scores, Confidence intervales, Relative standard deviation, Interquartile Range

Question 4

Performance Outcome Measures

Answer 4

Focus on the end result, the outcome of performing a skill

Question 5

Performance Process Measures

Answer 5

Focus on how movement was performed

Question 6

Experimental Method: Mechanical

Answer 6

Joint/Segment motion, control of force, movement success, interactions between person and environment

Question 7

Experimental Method: Electrical

Answer 7

Electromyography (EMG)

Question 8

Experimental Method: Metabolic

Answer 8

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), fMRI, Position Emission Tomography (PET)

Question 9

In-Phase Coordination

Answer 9

When two joints are flexing (or extending) at the same time)

Question 10

Anti-Phase Coordination

Answer 10

When one joint is flexing and the other is extending

Question 11

Pre-Motor Time

Answer 11

Amount of time between when the brain identifies a stimulus and when it organises a response