Stages of Motor Learning/ML principles
Motor Learning Principles for Intervention
Vocabulary
Interventions:
Practice/Feedback
Interventions:
Evidence
100

Initial stage; improving motor performance requires the client consciously attending to the task

What is Cognitive Phase?

100
Designing intervention that is salient to the client

What is meaningful? 

100

The strategies and techniques used to teach others how to move.

What is motor learning?

100

When the amount of time in practice of the skill exceeds the rest period. Also least effective type of practice for generalization.

What is massed practice (aka blocked practice)?

100

A traditional bottom-up motor approach, Neurodevelopmental Therapy is this color on the traffic light system for motor outcomes for children with cerebral palsy.

What is Red?

200

The second stage of motor learning which focuses on practice, practice, practice; therapist allows errors to be made keeping in mind frustration tolerance of the client

What is Associative Phase?

200

Intervention principle that promotes carry-over of motor learning to other contexts.

What is generalization?

200

The purposefulness of an object

What is affordance?

200
The level of practice in which rest periods between trials os greater than the time of the motor practice.

What is distributed practice?

200
A green level intervention for motor outcomes for children with DCD?

What is the CO-OP?

300

The stage motor learning where the motor skill requires very little conscious/cognitive effort; skill has been learned; is automatic

What is Autonomous Phase?

300

True or False. Whole activity practice is generally a better intervention approach that part practice

What is True?

300

The resting state of a muscle

What is muscle tone?

300

The type of practice which learners repeat the skill, but with small refinements/changes; closest to the representation of the actual occupation

What is variable practice (aka random)?

300

True or False.  A child with a GMFCS level V can progress to a Level II with 3x direct therapy services weekly for 1yr

What is False?

400

In this type of intervention the pediatric client is actively engaged in an activity/task/occupation; green evidence bubble in Novak & Honan, 2019 for motor outcomes for clients with cerebral palsy.

What are task-oriented approaches/goal directed approaches? 

400

True or False. Longer periods of practice are preferable to shorter, frequent practice.

What is False?

400

All possible planes of motion in the joints controlled by the musculoskeletal systems and the CNS

What is degrees of freedom?

400

Feedback that gives the client information about HOW they performed the movement

What is Knowledge of Performance (KP)?

400

A Green Light intervention that is within the scope of OT, for motor outcomes for children with cerebral palsy, according to Novak & Honen, 2020.

What is CIMT?   What is Goal-directed training?  What is task-specific training? What is OT after Botox?

500

This approach engages children/adolescents in a verbal problem-solving approach to motor challenges; green intervention for clients with DCD who want to learn motor skills

What is the CO-OP approach?

500

Open or Closed. Client throwing bean bags through a moving hula hoop suspended by a rope from the ceiling.

What is Open?

500

One characteristic of developmental coordination disorder (DCD)?

What is clumsiness?  What is incoordination? What is slowness in motor performance? What is inaccuracy in motor performance?

500

Feedback given to the client related to the outcome of the motor skill; should not be given 100% of the time.

What is Knowledge of Results (KR)?

500

A Yellow+ (probably do it) intervention (within the scope of OT) for improvement in hand function for clients with cerebral palsy?

What is seating?  What is AT robotics?  What is taping?  What is night splinting?

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