Balance
The area beneath an object or person that includes every point of contact that the object or person makes with the supporting surface.
What is base of support
Big toe with painful bunion
What is biomechanical constraints
Bracing your core and widening your feet when catching a medicine ball.
What is feed-forward control
A young child having difficulty skipping, singing a song, and clapping.
What is attentional capacity limits
Remembering your family vacation to Hawaii when you were in high school
What is episodic memory?
The ability of an object to remain in a state of balance or resist disturbances and return to a state of balance
What is stability
Stepping up onto a curb
What is anticipatory postural adjustments
When a basketball player adjusts their shooting form after seeing the ball miss the hoop, they are using this type of control to make corrections.
What is feedback control
A football quarterback focusing on a receiver and then the incoming blitz
What is attentional switching
Grouping objects or numbers together
What is chunking
The relationship between COM and BOS
What is COM must be over BOS to remain balanced
Slipping on ice
What is reactive postural adjustments
A skier adjusts their body position in anticipation of a sharp turn ahead, based on the terrain they can see, before experiencing any imbalance
what is feedforward control
A baseball batter is feeling the weight of the bat in his hands
what is narrow and internal focus
How we get memory from working memory to long term memory
What is rehearsal
The most stable phase of the gait cycle
What is double stance with both feet on the ground
Reaching out to grab an object
What is stability limits
A response used to regain balance after a large perturbation
What is hip strategy
A soccer player is in a high stress game and misses a pass
what is attentional narrowing
This refers to the ability to perform a task smoothly and efficiently with little conscious thought, often developed through repetition and practice, such as typing or driving
What is automaticity
Changes in gait seen by an older individual with a fear of falling
What is wide stance, small steps, reduced arm swing and hunched stance
Standing on the moving walkway in an airport
What is sensory integration
The ankle and hip strategy impacts this while the stepping strategy changes what
What is Center of Mass and Base of Support
Someone is walking down the street while discussing motor control with her friend and can do both tasks successfully
What is automaticity and multiple resource pool
Someone is texting while driving and misses the turn to the gas station on their way home.
What is overlooking important cues or failing to adapt to new situations due to automaticity