Fundamental Terms
Concerned with the execution of these processes that lead to skilled human movement as well as the factors that lead to the breakdown of those skills
Motor Learning
Motor Development
Motor Control
Motor Control
Modern researchers often criticize Maturational Theory for being 'top-down' because it focuses almost exclusively on the development of this specific system while ignoring the influence of the body and environment.
Central Nervous System
This factor of Arousal refers to an individual's knowledge of the expected outcome
What is predictability?
A general trait or capacity of a person that is relatively enduring
What is Ability?
This part of the neuron contains cell nucleus and machinery for life processes
What is the Soma
In newells model, this a Constraint that relates to body structure, such as height, weight, muscle mas,s or body structure
Individual Constraint
While Maturational Theory was dominant for decades, it eventually gave way to this theory, which argues that motor skills emerge from the self-organization of multiple systems (body, task, and environment) rather than just a pre-programmed brain. (Dyamic systemstheory, Behaviroism, Information Proscessing Theory)
Dynamic Systems Theory
When assessing an individual's arousal, measuring someone's Heart rate or pupil dilation would be this type of assessment (Physiological, Behavioral, Cognitive)
physiological
This type of balance describes a person's ability to remain centered in a stable ,fixed position
What is static balance
This neurotransmitter is primarily responsible for the 'fight or flight' response by increasing heart rate and blood flow to muscles? (GABA, Serotonin, Epinephrine, Acetylcholine)
Epinephrine
Constraints from the world around us can be physical or sociocultural
Environmental Constraints
According to the Information Processing perspective, which stage is most affected by Hick's Law, which states that Reaction Time increases as the number of stimulus-response alternatives increases? (Response Selection, Stimulus Identification, Response Programming, Sensory Transmission )
Response Programming
This principle states that there is an optimal level of arousal where an individual will function at their highest performance.
What is the Inverted U principal
The ability to make a rapid selection of controls to be moves or the direction to make them in, this can help with body positioning before responding to a stimuli
What is response orientation?
This is the thin filament found in a sarcomere
What is Actin?
This type of study compares two different groups at a single point in time
What is a cross-sectional study
This term refers to an individual constraint that can control the emergence of a new skill
what is a rate limiter?
A quarteberback who is surveying the defense to determine who is open would be this type of attentional focus (Broad-Internal, Broad External, Narrow External, Narrow Internal)
Broad External
This term refers to the ability to see clearly and precisely
What is visual acutiy
This term refers to The Thick filament found in a sarcomere
What is myosin?
This term refers to the specific group of individuals recruited at the start of a longitudinal study who share a common characteristic or experience.
What is a Cohort?
This term states that the function an environmental object provides to an individual
What is an affordance?
A person who is only focusing on one external cue would be demonstrating this type of attentional focus (Broad-Internal, Broad External, Narrow External, Narrow Internal)
Narrow external
This term describes the ability to maintain postural stability on a moving surface or while locomoting
Dynamic Balance
These neurotransmitters are classified as the major inhibitory signal in the central nervous system, helping to prevent over-excitation of neurons (It is the most frequently occurring transmitter in the human body). (GABA, Dopamine, Glutamate, adrenaline)
What is GABA?