Motor Learning & Coaching Flashcards
Define Motor Learning
Discipline concerned with the learning of skilled movements through biophysical knowledge about neural, muscular, & sensory systems, practise & feedback
What 2 are subsections of Motor Learning & Coaching
- Motor Programs
- Motor Skills
Define Motor Programs
Organised set of individuals motor skills (or subroutines) that result in the correct execution of specified sills
List the characteristics of Motor Programs
- Dependant on the individual motor skills
- Stored within performers memory & when called upon
- In completing the task, performer combines small task into bigger tasks
Define Skill
Learnt ability to bring about predetermined results with a maximum of certainty, often with a maximum outlay of time or energy or both
What are the 3 types of skills
- Cognitive Skills
- Perceptual Skills
- Motor Skills
Define Cognitive Skills
- Primarily uses brain =
E.g. Reading
Define Perceptual Skills
- How an individual interprets stimuli
E.g. 2 people receive same info, but interpret the info differently
Define Motor Skills (in terms of Skill)
- Physical Movement
E.g. Catching, Throwing
Define Motor Skills
Activities that involve voluntary muscular movement to complete a predetermined task to help understand the demand of the skill
Characteristics Of Motor Skills
- Complex sequence of movements
- Learned & required to improve performers
- Predetermined goals & incentives
Skilled Performers who have excellent Motor Skills have what characteristics list 4
- Correct Response
- Achieve desired outcome
- Improved accuracy
- Quicker response
- Well coordinated with fluency of movement
- Analyse info & make decision faster
- Fluent movement - physiologically economic
- Focus on relevant cues
Define movement precision in terms of classification of motor skills
Influence by the size of muscle groups/ & movement involved.
State the difference between Gross & Fine motor skills
Gross = Involve major muscle groups to produce large body movements E.g. walking
Fine = Involve movement of smaller muscle groups to produce more precise movement coordination.
E.g. writing
define type of movement
How well defined the beginning & end performance is
Define Discrete skills
Have a clear beginning & end
E.g. drive in golf
Define serial skill
A number of discrete skills, put together in a particular order
E.g. floor routine in gym
Define continuous data
Don’t have a clear beginning or end, & is impossible to tell where skill starts & when it stops.
E.g. cycling. or jogging
What are Cues?
List all 3 types of cues
- Verbal
- Visual
- Proprioceptive
Define the Visual Cue
Opportunity to “watch” the desired skill/visual aids, critical in cognitive stage, around 3 or 4 points verbalised, external.
Define Verbal Cue
A short orientated phase which directs or performs attention to task relevant stimuli which goes into enhance performance, instruction & feedback to perform.
Prior to performance to increase focus, positive visual cues increases motivation
Define Proprioceptive
Internal feedback which comes from sensory reception “proprioceptive” - in joints, muscles, & tendons.
Send info to CNS detailing positions, posture, equilibrium.
Help CNS control, speed, & position.
Kinaesthetic Information
Information from within your body out, about how the movement felt & can be used by experienced perfomer.
