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Lecture 8 - Learning and Performance Flashcards

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What is motor control?

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The interaction between muscular and nervous systems to perform movement

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What is motor learning?

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Relatively permanent change in motor control over time

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What is motor performance?

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A measure of motor control at a particular time

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What is performance?

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A one shot effort. Short-term, temporary, somewhat erratic.

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What is learning?

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Relatively permanent improvement in performance due to practice. It is inferred from several performances and produces an internal change.

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How is learning measured?

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By the amount of learning and the rate of learning

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What is the amount of learning?

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The absolute change from one level of performance to another level (how much change has occurred)

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What is the rate of learning?

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The rate of change in the performance (the speed of change)

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What are the three tests or learning?

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Performance test, retention test, and transfer test

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What is a performance test?

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Tests for overall improvement. Improved consistency, improved stability, persistence

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What is a limitation of a performance test?

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It is unreliable

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What is a retention test?

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Test the ability to retain information over a given period of time. Maintenance of the curve means the skill has been learned

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What is a transfer test?

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The curve should be maintained as transfer occurs. The skill should be applicable from one situation to another

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What are the four types of learning curves?

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Negatively accelerated, positively accelerated, linear curve, and s shaped curve

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What is a negatively accelerated learning curve?

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Characterized by large initial improvements followed by decreasing improvements

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What is a positively accelerated learning curve?

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Characterized by small improvements followed by increasingly larger improvement

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What is a linear learning curve?

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Characterized by an equal amount of improvement on every trial. Ideal but rare.

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What is an s-shaped linear curve?

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Characterized by small initial improvements, followed by a rapid gain over one or two trials, followed by small improvements

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What are the limits of learning?

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Asymptotes and the ceiling effect (floor effect)

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What is an asymptote?

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A leveling off in performance due to an internal (individual) limitations

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What is the ceiling effect (floor effect)?

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A leveling off in performance due to external limitations

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What is a plateau?

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A temporary leveling off in performance followed by additional improvement with practice

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What is periodization?

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A planned long-term variation of the volume and intensity of training to prevent overtraining and promote optimal performance at the desired time?

24
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How can you break through plateaus?

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Periodization

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How is periodization achieved?

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By dividing training plans into a series of manageable phases

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What is each phase in periodization designed to do?

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Each phase is designed to target a specific or serioes of attributes to be developed within a designated period of time

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How are periodizations divided?

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Macrocycle -> mesocycle -> microcycle

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What is an example of a macrocycle?

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A quadrennium (4 year period/Olympic schedule) or 1 year of training

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What is an example of a mesocycle?

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Pre-season/in-season/off-season. Usually two or more within a macrocycle

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What is a microcycle?

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1 - 4 weeks or more of daily and weekly training variations

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What are the benefits of periodization?

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Enables logical planning and ongoing monitoring of program, caters to the individual, ensures adequate periods of lower intensity training to follow higher intensity training, produces optimal performance, and prevents burnout

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