Motor Control Theories
Driving a car is an example of
What is Closed-Loop Control?
This stage is most affected when stimuli and responses are varied
What is Response selection?
This limited to approximately 7 items
What is Short-Term Memory Capacity?
The idea that we have limited attentional focus
What is Perceptual Load?
This concept determines the size of a target based on the distance a subject must travel to reach it
What is Fitt's Law?
A batter swinging in time to hit a pitch is an example of...
Open-Loop control?
A good example of this concept would be presenting a stimuli on the left side of someones body and having their response be with their left hand
What is S-R compatibility?
The inability to acquire new memories
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
The spotlight metaphor is another way of explaining this concept
What is Visual Search?
Learning occurs at multiple levels, but including as small as this
What is the Synaptic Level?
This describes an abstract pre-defined set of instructions that encodes for specific tasks
What is generalized motor program theory?
This form of the processing could also be called stimuli detection
What is bottom-up processing?
This concept also explained as "Neurons that fire together, wire together"
What is Hebbian Learning?
This is the etection of visual information in the periphery that guides attention
What is Pre-Attention?
If you sleep less you are more likely to experience this in regards to memories
What is forgetting?
This issue arises because our limbs give us many ways to complete a task, but that mean we also must account for many factors
What is the Degrees of Freedom Problem?
The Stroop effect demonstrates the role of this type of processing on response selection
What is top-down processing?
The process of transforming information into a construct suitable for memory
What is Encoding?
What is External Focus?
Saccades are anticipatory, therefore we can experience this phenomenon
What is Change Blindness?
Movements can have different trajectories and yet achieve the same goal
What is Motor Redundancy?
Recognizing the features of a person's face despite those features being hidden demonstrates that perception is this
What is inferential?
The process of strengthening a memory after it is acquired
What is Consolidation?
This paradigm is important because we are able to determine the attentional load required to perform a task, while also assessing different types of interference
What is the Dual-Task Paradigm?
This explains how someone can understand that riding a rollercoaster in a virtual reality setting is not actually real, but they still feel like they are on the rollercoaster
What is Perception?