NeuroPT 1 REVIEW #1 Flashcards
What is Motor Learning?
Acquisition of NEW SKILLS w/ Practice
Learning is NOT _____
Passive
*experience and active problem-solving are necessary for learning to take place
What facilitates a permanent change in behavior?
Result of experience and (perfect) practice
In terms of Motor Learning…adult pts are not learning new skills, but rather ___________
relearning OLD skills w/ a damaged CNS
More _______ gen leads to _______
GOOD practice leads to better performance
Fundamental unit of therapy
TASK and all learning is GOAL-ORIENTED
practice needs to be accurate
Practice makes permanent
Most effective interventions are……
Functional!
*Practice must have PURPOSE!!!
3 Trad. Stages of Motor Learning
- Cognitive
- Associative
- Autonomous
*NOTE: Attentional demands DEC from cognitive to autonomous stages
Motor Learning:
Cognitive stage
Understand task, develop strategies, high deg. of attention*
Motor Learning:
Associative Stage
Best strategy selected, skill refinement
*associate the skill w/ the task and refine it
Motor Learning:
Autonomous Stage
Skill is automatic, low deg. of attention
Process of motor learning:
Acquisition
*exactly what it sounds like
- Skill Acquisition: initial dev. of motor skill, impossible w/out practice!
Process of Motor Learning:
Retention
*exactly what it sounds like
- Skill Retention: remembering a motor skill
Process of Motor Learning:
Generalizability
*incorporating it into your life
- Skill Generalizability: positive influence that a prev. practiced skill has on the learning of a new skill
Process of Motor Learning:
Application in Altered Contexts
*exactly what it sounds like
Will this pt be able to perform the same activity in a diff context?
FEEDBACK***
return to the brain of info. regarding the result of action or process
Trad. feedback in PT informs pt of how they performed or completed an activity
Feedback Timing:
Frequent
distracts and interferes w/ info processing, NEGATIVELY impacts learning
Feedback Timing:
Concurrent & Continuous
MOST EFFECTIVE for performance, maximizes dependency
Feedback:
Intrinsic
- gen’d from pts sensory organs
- Proprioceptive (jt pos. sense), tactile (pressure sense), visual, vestib.
Feedback:
Extrinsic
- Provided by some EXT. source
- YOU, device
Feedback:
Knowledge of Performance
KP
- Feedback on execution→ gives info on mvmt components→ building block
- EX. Goal→ transfer from sit→ stand <5s
- Tell them what happened
- insuff trunk flex
- incorrect sitting pos. @ initiation
- Incorrect pos. of feet
- Tell them what happened
- EX. Goal→ transfer from sit→ stand <5s
Feedback:
Knowledge of Results
KR
“How it Went”
- Feedback on outcome (info about task completion) whether they did task correctly→ better for long-term learning
- EX. Goal to transfer from sit→ stand <5s
- tell them how it went
- successful completion of transfer
- Time to complete
- tell them how it went
- EX. Goal to transfer from sit→ stand <5s
KP vs. KR
EXAMPLE: watching someone don their shirt and they put it on backwards
KP: they did not turn shirt around first before they put their head thru neck opening
KR: Their shirt is on backwards
Feedback:
Immediate
Given after ea. trial
Feedback:
Summary
Given after a given # of trials
Bandwidth Feedback
“Are you in the range?”
Provided when a certain lvl of accuracy is not achieved
Given when the person exceeds the target range or when person fails to meet target range
Overshot it or Came up short
NOTE: Use of Feedback
- “Faded” Feedback→ MOST EFFECTIVE for long-term retention*
- Early feedback→ frequent and concurrent
- Once performance improves→ feedback should be → LESS FREQ., very brief, focused on precision, given in summary
Error detection:
we want the pt to have the opportunity to sense and correct errors in order to make improvements
Goals of Practice
Acquisition: initial learning
Retention & Transfer (Generalizability): long-term learning
Practice
What combo is most effective?
Physical AND Mental
Partial-Task practice
select portion of the action
Whole-Task practice
do the whole task
MOST USEFUL for Part-Task practice
- Long task
- Diff aspects
- must gradually integrate to minimize transfer problems