Skill Classification
A researcher with a background in this subdiscipline of motor behavior would be interested in how massed versus distributed practice influences skill acquisition.
What is "motor learning."
The stage of maturation based on skeletal age,
sexual maturity, and physique maturity.
What is biological age?
The broad term that explains motor development, motor learning, and motor control.
What is motor behavior?
This is a determinant of a person’s achievement potential for the performance
of specific skills; this is a characteristic that one is born with.
What is a motor ability
A category of motor skill performance measures that
indicates the outcome or result of performing a motor skill (e.g., how far a person
walked, how fast a person ran a certain distance, and how many points a basketball
player scored).
What are performance outcome measures?
Mechanisms within the nervous and
muscular systems that underlie the control of movements and actions.
What are neuromotor processes
He is the father of modern "constraints theory."
Who is Karl Newell
After WWII, funding and continuations in research from these organizations/groups helped to create the field of motor behavior.
British Royal Air force & the United States Air force
This is a hypothesis that explains motor abilities that characterize people are highly related to each other.
What is general motor ability hypothesis?
a kinematic measure describing the rate of change of an object’s
position with respect to time.
What is velocity?
If motor skills are classified according to the stability of the environment, bowling should be placed in this category of motor skills...
What are "open motor skills"
A quantitative increase in size or body
mass resulting from an increase in complete,
already formed body parts
What is physical growth
This branch of motor behavior is associated with:
how the brain and central nervous
system interact with musculature AND Muscle forces & limb velocities
What is Motor Control
The type of timing used by dancers to maintain a specific rhythm and tempo when no music is playing is called _____________ timing.
What is internal timing
According to this theory, motor development is an internal or innate process driven
by a biological or genetic time clock.
What is maturational perspective?
A motor skill that requires the use of large muscle groups and does not require precision of movement for successful performance.
A characteristic of the individual,
environment, or task that
encourages some movements while
discouraging others.
What is a "constraint"
An approach to the study of motor
development that assumes that the
performer is part of a larger system;
this larger system involves the
unique requirements of the task as
well as the environment-imposed
limitations on movements.
What is "dynamic systems approach"
This is the ability to make skillful, well-directed arm-hand movements that involve manipulating objects quickly.
Manual dexterity
As humans, we understand that we can perform a box (plyometric) jump onto a stationary exercise box. But, we know not to attempt a plyometric jump onto a rooftop. This is an example of ....
What is affordance?
Triple jump is a track and field event that requires the performer to run down a runway, then perform a hop, skip, and jump sequence. The hop, skip, and jump portion of this skill is an example of what classification of skill?
What is a serial or sequential motor skill?
Susie wants to try out for the junior high volleyball team, but she is afraid that she will get made fun of for trying out. What constraint type is this related to?
What is a functional individual constraint?
Finish the sentence...
The subdiscipline of motor behavior, motor development, is the study of...
changes in motor performance that occur
throughout different phases of the
human lifespan.
The father of the taxonomy of human perceptual-motor abilities.
Who is Dr.Fleishman.
The typical amount of time it takes to earn a Ph.D, if you were to get your bachelors degree, masters degree, then philosophical doctorate degree?
10-12 years