Motor Learning Flashcards
Motor Control
Understanding of the control of already acquired movement
Motor Learning
Understanding the acquisition of movement
Motor learning encompasses what two things?
The acquisition of movement and the reacquisition of movement
Motor learning is a set of processes associated with practice or experience leading to what?
To relatively permanent changes in the capability for producing skilled action
Motor learning concepts
Process of acquiring the capability for skilled action; results from experience or practice; cannot be directly measured; produces relatively permanent changes in behavior; short term changes are NOT considered learning
Motor learning emerges as a result of the interaction of what 3 things?
individual, task, and environment
Performance
temporary changes in motor behavior seen during practice
Learning
Relatively permanent change
Learning cannot be measured during what?
practice
What are the 3 stages of motor learning?
cognitive, associative, and autonomous
Cognitive stage of motor learning
Understanding the nature of the task, developing strategies, and requires high degree of cognitive activity, High amount of attention required
Associative stage of motor learning
Person has selected best strategy, begins to refine the skill
Autonomous stage of motor learning
Skill becomes automatic, low degree of attention required
The cognitive stage of motor learning occurs in what parts of the brain?
Association Motor cortex and language centers
The associative/autonomous stages of motor learning occur in what parts of the brain?
basal ganglia and motor cortex
Teaching a new skill involves what 3 tasks?
preparation of design of practice, organization and scheduling, and feedback for skill learning
Motor learning factors
motivation, feedback, practice, guidance, and transfer
Motivation must be __________, purposeful knowledge of the activity
clear
Who must be involved in goal setting?
the patient
Goals must be what?
specific and attainable
Activity must be perceived as what?
meaningful and useful
Patient should be encouraged towards what?
higher goals
Principles of motivation
creative behavior, goal setting, instructions, and demonstration/modeling
purpose of feedback
give information regarding outcome of movement
goal of feedback
improve performance and learning without feedback
Any type of feedback has the potential to improve motor learning if it does what?
adds essential information and is not needed during all tasks
Knowledge of results (KOR)
outcome information (about goal achievement), important in learning
Knowledge of performance (KOP)
information on kinetics or kinematics of task, useful in refining task
What’s better KOR or KOP?
a combination of both works best
Erroneous feedback will ________ performance and learning?
diminish
Feedback should focus on how many movements?
1-2
Precise, frequent, immediate feedback facilitates what?
performance