Week 8 - Information processing Flashcards
What is motor behaviour
Any motor action that is used to achieve a task or goal
Motor control
Perception and action, how we take in information and create movement
Motor learning
How we learn and retain movement skills
Motor development
How we refine skills to become elite at performing them
Information processing order
Stimulus identification
Response selection
Response programming
Motor program
The pre structured set of movement commands that shapes the movement
Three levels of the effector
Motor program
Spinal cord
Muscles
What is learning
A process of acquiring skilled actions
Occurs as a result of practice or experience
Produces permanent changes in capability of skilled action
Types of learning
Explicit learning
Implicit learning
What is explicit learning
Learner consciously set out to learn the skill
What is implicit learning
Being exposed to a skill whilst not consciously paying attention to it
What is declarative knowledge
Knowing what to do - such as listening to instructions
What is procedural knowledge
Being able to do a skill
Fitt’s and Posner’s 3 stages of learning
Cognitive - What needs to be done
Fixation - How the skill is performed
Autonomous
What is massed practice
Time between trials is shorter than the time taken to undertake the task
