MOTOR THIS, MOTOR THAT
An activity or task that requires voluntary movements of the joints and body segments to achieve a goal
Motor skill
Three examples of fine motor skills
There are lots of options!
Assesses the result of a movement
Performance outcome measure
The pattern of head, body, and limb movements
Coordination
This functional skill uses central pattern generators in the spinal cord
Locomotion/walking/gait
The study of how movement changes over the lifespan
Motor development
A motor skill performed with in-motion or unstable environmental conditions
Open motor skill
At least three domains of outcome measures
Spatial, temporal, error, count/success rate
Argument that there a single motor ability
General motor ability hypothesis
This is the functional skill I use to grab my water bottle
Prehension
The study of the acquisition and enhancement of motor skills
Motor learning
Three discrete motor skills
Often need to be highly specific.
The time between the onset of movement and the completion of the skill
Movement time
Movement time
A change of location of body segments that does not meet the 4 characteristics of a motor skill
Movement
Classify the skill of making the 8 ball in a game of pool at Sam's Place when it's very busy and people keep bumping into you and the table.
Gross
Discrete
Open
This type of error ignores the positive or negative in the distance from the target
Absolute error
A plot to visualize a client/athlete motor abilities
Spider plot or radar chart
2D/W
distance
width
These are the four characteristics of motor skills
goal-directed, voluntary, head/body/limb movement, learned
4D
(Body transport, object, in-motion, variability)
Calculate the constant error
-1, 3, -6, 2
-0.5
Aptitude testing
Two important aspects of vision during catching
Tau is time to contact.
Vision is most important 200-300 ms before contact