Quiz 2 Flashcards
(92 cards)
Motor Recovery
re-acquisition of movement skills lost through injury
the search for new solutions to specific tasks and environments given new constraints imposed by pathology
Motor Learning
Practice and experience leading to relatively permanent changes in the capability to produce skilled action
4 Concepts for Motor Learning
- Process of aquiring capability for skilled action
- Results from experience or practice
- Cannot be measured directly (inferred from behavior)
- Produces relatively permanent behavior change
T or F: Motor Learning is only motor processes
False! Motor learning includes motor processes AND learning new sensing strategies which emerge from the individual, task, and environment
learning to pay attention to the right bodily sensations
T or F: Both Motor Learning and Motor Recovery focus on how individuals solve functional tasks in specific environments
True!
T or F: Changes in motor performance that result from practice reflect motor learning
False!
Performance
temporary change in motor behavior seen during practice sessions
A relatively permanent change in behavior that is retained following improved performance
Motor Learning
T or F: We must observe changes in behavior to assume motor learning
True!
Attention
cognitive process by which people dectect, select, sustain, or shift awareness among a myriad of relevant information and stimuli
Internal Focus of Attention
Focus on the movement itself
ex: focusing on their feet when skateboarding
External Focus of Attention
Focus on the movement outcomes
ex: focusing on the wheels located directly under your feet when skateboarding
T or F: External focus enhances learning more than internal
True!
Exogenous Attention
Externally Driven
Bottom-Up Control
Driven by a salient stimulus
ex: sounds or fast-moving colorful objects (doom scroll)
Endogenous Attention
Internally Generated
Top-Down Control
Goal Oriented
ex: locking in to do my homework
Would a gait training program in a clinic environment or community enviornment require more endogenous attention?
Community Environment
The environment is more complex and highly variable. The patient will have to process relevant information and filter out distracting stimuli and work more intentionally to remember the goal of their task.
Basic Forms of Long-Term Memory
Declarative
Non-Declarative
Nonassociative Learning
reflex pathways
Occurs when given a single stimulus repeatedly
Habituation and Sensitization
Habituation
Nonassociative Learning
Decreased responsiveness due to repeated exposure to stimulus
ex: used to treat some dizziness and tactile defensiveness
Sensitization
Nonassociative Learning
Increased responsiveness following a threatening or noxious stimuli
ex: if painful stimulus followed by light touch, may react more stronly than usual to light touch
Associative Learning
Learning to predict relationships
Classical and Operant Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
associative
relationship of one stimulus to another
ex: Pavlov’s Dogs
Operant Conditioning
associative
Relationship of one’s behavior to a consequence (trial & error learning)
Law of Effect
ex: learning new limits of stability following a stroke
Law of Effect
rewarded behaviors are repeated at the cost of others
behaviors followed by an aversive stimuli are not usually repeated