Explicit/Implicit Learning
This is related to remembering factual knowledge
What is explicit memory?
a decrease in responsiveness that occurs as a result of repeated exposure to a non painful stimulus
What is habituation?
This is temporary and may not represent permanent skill acquisition.
What is performance?
There are the possible movement options available at the joints.
What are degrees of freedom?
This is a long term memory related to motor skills and simple learning tasks
What is implicit memory?
If I receive a painful stimulus on the skin and then a light touch, I will react more strongly than I normally would to the light touch.
What is an example of sensitization?
These are the 3 factors that interact in Karl Newell's Ecological Theory.
What are the individual (organism), task, and environment?
This commonly happens to DOF during early motor learning to simplify movement.
What is freezing of degrees of freedom?
When teaching a child to ride a bike, these are some cues that foster implicit memory.
What is focus on the reaching the finish line not on the process of pedaling the bike
an initially weak stimulus becomes highly effective in producing a response when it becomes associated with another, stronger, stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
This motor learning theory uses generalized motor programs and schemas.
What is Schmidt's schema theory?
This is a possible long term problem of excessive splint restrictions during rehabilitation.
What is limited adaptability or reduced normal coordination?
When teaching a child to play hopscotch these are cues that foster explicit memory.
What is try to remember the pattern of the hopscotch squares and focus on the sequence of hops to reach the end
Verbal praise by the therapist for performing a task well reinforces the movement
What is an example of operant conditioning?
According to Schmidt's theory, this type of practice improves learning.
What is variable practice?
These gait characteristics may be seen in a child with cerebral palsy due to altered DOF.
What are co-contraction, stiffness, and limited joint movement?