Motor Function

Question 1

Motor skills

Answer 1

tasks that need voluntary control of the joints and body in order to do a task
ex: eating which needs my fingers and arm

Question 2

Motor learning

Answer 2

acquiring motor skills - performance increasing of learned skill

learning a new task then practicing with the goal of doing it perfectly
ex: learning how to hit a damn baseball (fast af)

Question 3

cognitive phase

Answer 3

movt. slow, inconsistent, inefficient and movts. are always thought about
- basically what to do

Question 4

associative phase

Answer 4

becoming like water, reliable, efficient and we’re getting more automatic
- always practicing
- how to do

Question 5

autonomous phase

Answer 5

movt. are like lebron (accurate, consistent, efficient and automatic)
- practice makes routine
- how to fully succeed

Question 6

cognitive stage

Answer 6

this is the part where we learn what to do
- needs feedback
- sometimes i can be slow and needs demonstration
- then i start to see, is it worth all this

Question 7

associative stage

Answer 7

practice makes perfect
- now i know where its wrong
- how good am i too learn this (ex. baseball and how to play that crap)
- less reliance and more independency

Question 8

autonomous stage

Answer 8

“all you baby”
- this is all you and full control

Question 9

motor control

Answer 9

how our nerves tells the muscles and limbs to do something
- voluntary movt.

Question 10

motor development

Answer 10

combining learning and control from birth to where you are rn
- growth and maturing affects this

Question 11

motor program

Answer 11

series of routines in order to do a movt.
- stored representation
- comes from motor planning and practice
- LTM all the way from utero (throwback)

Question 12

motor plan

Answer 12

a bunch of programs needed to do a movt.
- planning what’s the next step
ex: how do you shoot a basketball?

Question 13

motor memory

Answer 13

recalling motor programs
- gotta remember what we do
ex: knowing how to shoot a basketball after months

Question 14

motor function training

Answer 14

• stabilize yourself first before anything (can’t start lifting w/o being stable)
• mobility on stability (if i were to squat, i need to stabilize my core before i start my descend)
• mobility (going for it)
• motor skill (don’t fake a squat)
• feedback (how did you do? what could you do better?)
• concurrent or terminal feedback (how does your coach like it?)