Output, Effectors and motor programmes

Question 1

whats a motor programme ?

Answer 1

A motor programme is a set of movements stored in the memory
* retrived from the LTM in the decision making process and ran in the STM.
* motor programmes are put into effect by effectors - nerves and muscles which move limbs
* they are well rehearsed and can be retrieved quicker and quicker through practice
* they can be modified if needed

Question 2

whats an excecutive motor programme?

Answer 2

An excecutive motor programme is a series of sub routines into a correct sequence to **performe a movement. **
* E.g. a tennis stroke - grip, stance, swing, follow through
* it organises subroutines into a hierarchial structure.
* you cannot carry out an excecutive motor programme if you have not already mastered any one of the subroutines.

Question 3

what did Fitts and Posner suggest when linking motor programmes and sub-routines to stages of learning?

Answer 3

• that the lowest of subroutines are carried out automatically.
• as the performer becomes more skillful the excecutive motor programmes become subroutines of larger executive motor programmes.