Psychology Definitions
This term refers to the mental faculty of knowing, including perceiving, judging, and reasoning.
What is cognition
when individuals engage in behavior because the individual enjoys the process and gains pleasure and satisfaction from participation
What is Intrinsic Motivation
The Life span stage from age: birth- 2yrs
What is Infancy
The time it take to receive and respond to a stimulus
What is Reaction time
The largest part of the brain that is made up of 5 lobes and deals with conscious thought and action
What is Cerebrum
A state of heightened physiologic and psychological
activity
What is arousal
The center of an individual’s personality and least modifiable aspect
What is the Core
The ability to perform reasoning and abstract thought
What is Fluid intelligence
Uses systematic reduction in the amount of knowledge of results given to an individual during a practice session
What is Fading knowledge of results
this disease is caused by a decrease in the synthesis of the neurotransmitter dopamine resulting from the death of dopaminergic cells in the brain.
An impression that an individual is capable of performing in a certain manner or attaining certain goals.
What is Self- efficacy
The basic principle of __________claims that after engaging in a behavior that results in some outcome, an individual begins to search for reasons why the outcome happened as it did
What is Attribution Theory
The three developmental stages in motor development
What is Initial, Elementary and Mature
This results from practicing several different tasks within the context of a single practice session
What is Contextual Interference
This part of the brain is typically divided into three separate areas: primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, and supplementary motor cortex
What is Motor Cortex
A state of enhanced and improved psychological states
What is Psychological well-being
If the quality of the performance is high and the level of arousal is moderate which theory would this be describing?
What is Inverted U Hypothesis Theory
this is a phase of motor development that involves skill acquisition such as jumping or throwing
What is Fundamental
There are three components of the Information Processing Model
What is Stimulus Recognition, Response Selection and Response Programming
this theory of motor control, enhances accuracy of muscle actions because movements of the body can be controlled and adjusted as they are occurring
What is Closed-loop theory
Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory
What is Perceptual
This theory is related to the individual, environment, and behavior where components of an individual's knowledge can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influences
What is Social Cognitive Theory
The ability to integrate cognition with motor abilities
What is Psychomotor function
These two components that make up the multistore memory model
What is encoding and decoding
Answers will vary, but must involve control of automatic actions where you cannot account or correct for errors during the movement