Muscle Magic
This type of movement is relatively stereotypical, once initiated.
What are rhythmic motor patterns?
The period of time that begins when a stimulus is presented and ends when the movement response starts.
What is reaction time?
A skill for which the primary determinant of success is the quality of the movement that the performer produces.
What is a motor skill?
Seeing that a stoplight has turned red occurs in this stage of information processing.
What is stimulus identification?
The psychological refractory period is due to a limitation in this stage of information processing.
What is movement programming?
A single motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates.
What is a motor unit?
Number of stimulus-response pairs, stimulus-response compatibility, anticipation, practice.
What are factors that can influence reaction time?
A skill that is performed in an environment that is stable and predictable.
What is a closed skill?
This visual system is important for object identification to initiate action. It provides information about the what in motor control.
What is the ventral stream?
The fact that attention is ________ means that we can only focus on one thing, then focus on another and are not able to focus on two things at once.
What is serial?
When a muscle contracts but there is no change in muscle length, it results in this type of contraction.
What is an isometric contraction?
In this stage, a quarterback makes the decision of which receiver they should throw the ball to.
What is response selection?
A group of discrete skills linked together, such as a gymnastics routine.
What is a serial skill?
Motor program, spinal cord, muscles.
What is the effector?
The Stroop Effect occurs because processing in this stage of information processing happens in parallel.
What is the stimulus identification stage?
These receptors are sensitive to tension in the muscle.
What are golgi tendon organs?
One stimulus and one response.
What is simple reaction time?
This cannot survive if something predicted from it turns out not to be the case.
What is a theory?
The difference between the expected state and actual state. It is fed back into the executive by the comparator.
What is error?
Motivation, arousal, fatigue, and environmental factors all affect this, explaining why trying to pay attention in class can sometimes be challenging.
What is sustained attention?
In the crossed-extension reflex, stepping on a sharp object with the right foot will result in this type of input to the extensor muscles of the left leg.
What is excitatory input?
This contains very well-learned information that has been collected over a lifetime.
What is long-term memory?
This type of error is interpreted as an overall tendency to underthrow or overthrow the target.
What is constant error?
The inability to tickle ourselves is due to the lack of a mismatch between these to pathways in the conceptual model?
What are anticipated feedback and proprioceptive feedback?
Paying attention to the location of your elbow as you are shooting a basketball would be an example of this.
What is internal focus of attention?