Midterm 1: Unit 1-3 Flashcards

1
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What is motor control?

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Movement through activation and coordination of muscles/limbs through reflective, reactive and voluntary mechanisms (afferent & efferent control).

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2
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What are Afferent Neurons?

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Provides CNS with information from periphery.

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3
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What are Efferent Neurons?

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Control muscle contraction.

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4
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What are Interneurons?

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Integrates multiple inputs and transmits processed signals.

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5
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Frontal Lobe Functions

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Movement, planning and reasoning.

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Parietal Lobe Functions

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Somatic sensation and spatial reasoning.

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Temporal Lobe Functions

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Hearing, smell, taste, visual perception and speech.

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Occipital Lobe Functions

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Vision.

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What is the functions of the Somatic NS?

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Limb/muscle position and external environment.

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What is the function of the Autonomic NS?

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Controls viscera, smooth muscle, and glands.

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11
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What is a synapse?

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The passing of information through electrochemical mechanisms.

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12
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What can occur in Post Synaptic Potentials?

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They can depolarize (EPSP) or hyperpolarize (IPSP).

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13
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What is Spatial Summation?

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The input from many presynaptic neurons.

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14
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What is Temporal Summation?

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The input from one presynaptic neuron in quick succession.

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15
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What are the factors that effect the response of motor neurons?

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They depend on size, velocity conduction and the number of muscle fibers it innervates.

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16
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What is a Motor Unit (MU)?

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A muscle neuron and all the extrafusal muscle fibers it innervates (Innervation Ratio).

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17
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What is MU Recruitment?

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Size principle: Smaller MU’s get recruited before larger ones.

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18
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What is the Motor Neuron Pool?

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All individual MU’s innervating a single muscle, clustered in the spinal cord (1-4 Spinal Segments).

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19
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What are extrafusal fibers?

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Responsible for movement, innervated by alpha motor neurons.

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20
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What are intrafusal fibers?

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Specialized for proprioception, detecting changes in muscle length and are innervated by gamma motor neurons.

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21
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How is Human Movement categorized?

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Reflexes, Stereotyped Movements, and Goal Directed Behaviours.

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22
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What is Skilled Performance?

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The learnt ability for specific results by maximizing the certainty of the goal and minimizing physical/mental energy cost and time used.

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Components of Skilled Performance

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Training/Practice, Efficiency/ Economy Performance and Flexibility.

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24
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What are the Critical Elements of Skill?

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Perpetual, Cognitive and Motor.

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25
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How can we Classify Skill?

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Environmental Predictability, Movement Initiation, Task Organization and Primary Muscles.

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26
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What is the Information Processing Model

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Input: signals from the environment.
Output: action on the environment.

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27
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Name the Processing Mechanisms (3)?

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Perception, Decision and Effector.

28
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What are factors that affect information processing?

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Limited Capacity, Speed-Accuracy and Reaction Time.

29
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What is Fitts’ Law?

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The movement time for tasks requiring speed and accuracy.

30
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What are the stages of learning?

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Cognitive, Associative and Autonomous.

31
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What is performance?

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The observable behaviour.

32
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What is learning?

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The relatively permanent improvement in performance through practice.

33
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What is Performance Production?

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It measures behaviour required to achieve a goal.

34
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What is Performance Outcome?

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It measures the result of a goal.

35
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How can we assess production?

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Human Judgement, Video Recording, Computer Analysis, EMG, EEG and fMRI.

36
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How can we assess outcome?

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Response Magnitude, Reaction Time and Accuracy/Error.

37
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What types of error can be measures?

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Constant, Variable, Absolute and Total Variability.

38
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Somatosensory System Function

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Detects the position and motion of body parts, receiving signals from the periphery and sends it to the CNS for interaction.

39
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What is Proprioception?

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The sense of limb position in space and relative to the body; awareness to oneself.

40
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What is Kinaesthesia?

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The conscious sense of movement.

41
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Cutaneous Receptors

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Respond to touch, stretch, vibration, pain and temperature, slow adapting (Merkle disc and Ruffini Endings) and fast adapting (Pacinian and Meissner Corpuscle).

42
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Joint Receptors

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Monitor joint angles and range of motion.

43
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Muscle Spindles

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They detect muscle length and changes in length.

44
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Type 1a Fibers

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Respond to both dynamic and static changes in the muscle, wrapping around both the nuclear bag and chain.

45
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Type 2 Fibers

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Respond to static muscle length and provide feedback about muscle stretch.

46
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Golgi Tendon Organs

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Sense muscle tension and force (↑ tension, ↑ fire rate).

47
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Flexion Withdrawal Reflex

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Limb withdrawal from pain.

48
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Stretch Reflex

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Monosynaptic reflex triggered by muscle stretch.

49
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Crossed Extension Reflex

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Opposite limb extends for balance when the other experiences pain.

50
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Visual System Function

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Detects objects and their movement in space; provides visual proprioception, body and segment positioning.

51
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What is the Fovea?

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Area for high resolution focus/imaging.

52
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What is the Pathway for Visual Information?

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Axon exits from optic disc, forms optic nerve and travels to the optic chasm.

53
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Where does the tract relay information to?

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The Superior Colliculus, Pretectal Region and Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.

54
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Primary Visual Cortex

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Dorsal Stream (Where): Spatial cues and located in the Posterior Parietal Region.
Ventral Stream (What): Pattern Recognition and located in the Temporal Cortex.

55
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What is Optic Ataxia?

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Difficulty grasping objects due to damage in the dorsal stream.

56
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What is Visual Agnosia?

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Difficulty Identifying objects due to damages in the ventral stream.

57
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What is the function of the Vestibular System?

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Controls balance (Vestibulo-Spinal Reflex) , eye and neck positioning (Vesbtibulo-Colic Reflex) and eye reflexes (Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex).

58
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What is Vestibular Ocular Reflex?

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Maintains eye stability/focus by moving the eyes in the opposite direction of the head movement.

59
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What is the structure of the Vestibular System?

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Bony Labyrinth filled with Perilymph Fluid and a membranous inner structure filled with Endolymph Fluid.

60
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Semicircle Canal

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Work in pairs, each movement excites one side and inhibits the other.

61
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What is the Ampulla?

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A bulge at the base that house cupulla which has cilia projecting from the hair cells.

62
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When do hair cells depolarize?

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When cilia bend toward the kinocilium increasing the firing rate.

63
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When do hair cells hyperpolarize?

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Occurs when cilia is bend opposite of the kinocilium.

64
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Otolith Organs (Utricle and Saccule)

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Detect head tilt and linear movement.

65
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Structure of Otolith Organs

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Otolithic Membrane extend into gelantinous layer containing otoconia (calcium crystals).

66
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Vestibular Sensory Neurons

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Signals travel through the Vestibular Cochlear Nerve to the Vestibular Nuclei (Lateral, Medial, Superior and Inferior).