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Unit 7: Strength & Motor Performance Flashcards

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Physical fitness

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an adaptive state that varies with an individuals growth and maturity status, and with their physical activity habits and lifestyle

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3 basic components of fitness

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muscular strength and endurance, cardiorespiratory endurance and motor ability

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Muscular strength and endurance as a component of fitness

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strength is the ability to express muscular force

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Cardiorespiratory endurance as a component of fitness

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endurance is the ability to carry out a task over a period of time

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Motor ability as a component of fitness

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includes several components that permit individuals to preform specific tasks
-eg: power, speed, agility or flexability

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Ways to classify motor activities

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  1. Fine vs gross motor activities
  2. discrete, continuous or serial skills
  3. open vs closed skills
  4. fundamental and specialized skills
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Fine motor skills

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movements that require precision and dexterity - manipulative tasks
Eg: using pencil, buttoning a shirt, opening a lunch box

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Gross motor skills

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require the entire body or major segments of the body - locomotor activities
Eg: walking, throwing, lifting

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The speed-accuracy trade-off

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Trade-off implies that higher movement speeds are generally accompanied by a loss in movement accuracy

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Fitt’s Law

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the time it takes you to move the cursor on the red rectangle depends on the size and distance

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Discrete motor skills

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Have a clear beginning and end
-tend to be brief, well defined actions
Eg: hitting or throwing a baseball

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Serial motor skills

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Represent a sequence of continuous and/or discrete motor skills
-more complex in nature
Eg: triple jump

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Continuous motor skills

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May have no apparent start or end
-the skill is repeated like a cycle
Eg: Running

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Closed motor skills

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Skill is preformed in a stable or predictable environment
-the movement patterns for the motor skill can be planned in advance
Eg: tennis serve, gymnastics routine

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Open motor skills

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Preformed in a dynamic and/or changing environment
-influenced by other factors than yourself
Eg: football, basketball, soccer

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Fundamental motor skills

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A basic motor skill that can be divided into locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skills

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Locomotor as a fundamental skill

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where the body is moved through space
Eg: walking

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Non-locomotor as a fundamental skill

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where specific body parts are moved
Eg: pushing, bending, twisting

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Manipulative as a fundamental skill

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Where an object is moved
Eg: throwing, striking, kicking

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Specialized motor skills

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Motor development involves the acquisition and refinement of basic motor skills
-basic patterns are integrated into more specialized and complex skills
-combines fundamental skills

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Performance

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how you are doing in the moment
-can vary from moment to moment
-can be affected by situational variables - functional and environmental constraints

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Learning

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-set of process occurring within the central nervous system
-produces an acquired capability
-changes are relatively permanent
-not directly observable
-changes are inferred from certain performance changes
-results form practice

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Practice

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refers to deliberate attempt to achieve motor learning although can also result in learning

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Things that must be considered when comparing performance and learning

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practice is critical for learning, performance curves, learning-performance distinctions, retention and transfer are true ‘tests’ for learning

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Performance curves
-plot performance as a function of time -Negative accelerated curve: rapid initial improvements followed by decreasing gains in improvement from practice -Positive accelerated curve: little improvement initially, followed by rapid improvement over time -provide indication of changes that occur during the acquisition of skill -performance can be masked by ceiling effect or floor effect
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Ceiling effect
when performance variable can go no higher - eg: percentage
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Floor effect
When performance variable can go no lower - Eg: reaction time
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Retention test
provides a better indication of the amount that had been learned during acquisition trials
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Sensory and Motor preformance: purpose
to determine whether the learning of a motor task is specific to the feedback conditions available during acquisition
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Sensory and Motor preformance: Methods
13 right handed physical education undergraduate students -task involved displacement of stylus in a specific movement time of 550msec with a mechanical perturbation that participants had learned to compensate for -target was red light
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Sensory and Motor preformance: procedures
group 1 (limb+target), groups 2 (target) -later all groups return under limb + target condition
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Sensory and Motor preformance: Results
both groups improved over practice, limb + target group preformed better -when both limb + target more errors from target group
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Sensory and Motor preformance: conclusions
the importance and dependence of our sensory systems on motor performance is something that is developed over practice. -use of vision interfered with what had been learned -the sensory conditions that we learn in are important in our performance
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Measures of strength
isometric, explosive, dynamic, muscular endurance
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Isometric strength
force against an external resistance without change in muscle length
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Explosive strength
release maximal force or torque in the shortest possible time
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Dynamic strength
force or torque generated by repetitive contractions of muscles
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muscular endurance
the ability to repeat or maintain muscular contractions over time
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Isometric strength in research
3 max voluntary contractions - take highest attempt -if used to sandwich intervention compare two highests
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Clair's grip strength study
-used hand grip dynamometer -elbow placed on desk to isolate wrist flexors -hold 60% until failure -required to recreate wave forms -If participants learn a motor task under the condition of fatigue, and then take a transfer test will there be a decrement in performance -change in context was not detrimental -learned skill was flexible
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specificity of learning effect
what was previously learned will have a negative impact on the performance of similar tasks -body creates a specific sensorimotor representation for what was learned
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Performance in Children
-info not as extensive for early childhood as middle or adolescence -intraindividual and interindividual variability in performance expressed from trial to trail
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When are fundamental skills developing in children
preschool years
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When does basic motor development occur
by age 6/7
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What is mature skill development
turning basic movements into more complex motor skills
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Preschool children motor skills gender differences
Balance and flexibility becomes greater in girls than boys boys better at grip strength, throwing a ball
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when does static strength change
between 6-18 years old -increases linearly until 13-14 in boys when there is an acceleration in strength development -girls experience no spurt
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When does muscular endurance change
improves linearly with age from 5-13/14 in boys followed by a spurt similar to static strength -no spurt in girls
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Balance measured in children
Through balance beam walk- child walks length of a beam without stepping off -scored by number of steps before stepping off, number of seconds or through point system where points are deducted for stepping off
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Flexibility in childern
girls more flexible on average, biggest sex difference observed during adolescent growth spurt -boys decline in lower back flexibility from ages 5 to 12
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Middle childhood/ adolescent motor performance differences summary
6-14 girls more flexible, boys throw better 14-15 strength slower to improve compared to boys
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Why are there strength-related gender differences
biological changes in maturation adipose accumulation socio-cultural factors
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Internal focus of attention
concentrating on the inside of the body while performing a motor task

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