Motor Behavior

Question 1

Motor Behavior

Answer 1

Motor response to internal & external environmental stimuli

Question 2

Motor Control

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Motor Learning

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Motor Development

Answer 4

Change in skilled motor behavior over time throughout the life span

Question 5

Muscle Synergies

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Mechanoreceptors

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Proprioception

Answer 7

The body’s ability to naturally sense its general orientation & relative position of it parts

Question 8

Sensorimotor Integration

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Feedback

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Internal Feedback

Answer 10

Process whereby sensory information is used by the body to reactively monitor movement & the environmen

Question 11

External Feedback

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Neuromuscular Efficiency

Answer 12

The ability of the nervous system to recruit the correct muscles to produce force, reduce force, & dynamically stabilize the body’s structure in all three planes of motion