Intro to Motor Learning and Control
T or F: Learning is observable
False
A type of skill that uses large musculature to achieve the goal is known as:
Gross Motor Skills
_______________ is the interval of time that elapses from the presentation of the stimulus to the initiation of a response.
Reaction Time
Which system contains the brain and spinal cord?
CNS
Will the frontal lobe increase or decrease in activity throughout motor skill learning (to the point a task is well learned)?
Decrease
A gymnastic routine is a _________ skill
(discreate, serial, continuous)
Serial
_______________________ are environmental factors that specify movement characteristics necessary for successful performance.
Regulatory conditions
If RT is fractionated, which time interval reflects the perceptual and cognitive component?
Pre-motor time
The _______ is the major pathway between hemispheres.
Corpus callosum
T or F: According to ecological approach, several learners could be faced with the same situation, and in turn the same affordances
False (Make sure to know why)
_________________is concerned with the execution of learning processes that lead to skilled human movement as well as the factors that lead to the breakdown of such skills.
Motor Control
T or F: An individual can be skilled without ability.
False
During a rehab session, a patient is told to lift their left arm if the therapist raises a red card, and to lift their right arm if the therapist raises a blue card. This is an example of what type of reaction time?
Choice reaction time
The knee-jerk reflex (patellar tendon reflex) is an example of which type of reflex?
Monosynaptic
The prediction of WHEN an event will occur is called ____________ anticipation?
Temporal
Actions in motor learning are the _______ achieved by performing a motor skill.
Outcome
Does skating on a crowded ice risk have has low or high intertrial variability? (Make sure to know why)
High
__________ law states that choice RT is logarithmically related to the number of stimulus choice alternatives.
Hicks
The part of the brain that contributes to attention and processes sensory information including touch, audition, and vision:
Parietal
The _______ hypothesis proposes that motor ability consists of multiple, distinct abilities that are independent of one another
Specificity
A change in the capability of a person to perform a skill that must be inferred from a relatively permanent improvement in performance as a result of practice or experience is known as:
Learning
Reaction time and aiming is classified as what type of motor ability?
Perceptual
Action possibilities of the environment/task in relation to the perceiver’s own capabilities and the perception of the environment/tasks that the perceiver can potentially exert on it is known as:
Affordances
In rehabilitation, therapists often focus heavily on hand and facial exercises. According to the motor cortex homunculus, why are these areas represented much larger than other body parts?
They require precise, fine motor control
During a therapy assessment, a patient must respond as soon as they see a small light flash on a screen. In one trial, the light is bright and clear, and in another trial, the light is dim and blurry. Reaction time is slower when the light is dim because it takes longer for the patient to detect the stimulus.
This difference provides evidence for which stage of information processing?
Sensation/Perception stage