Motor Learning/Development
Exercise and Sport Psychology
Biomechanics
Motor Control
Years
100

When information goes from long-term memory to short-term memory or from permanent memory into the working memory. 

What is "decoding"?

100

This a complex set of internal and external forces that influence individuals to behave in certain ways.

What is motivation?



100

Bodies, masses, and forces at rest or moving at a constant velocity

What is Statics?

100

The study of the structure and function of the central and peripheral nervous systems.

What is neuroanatomy? 

100

Division 47 of the APA officially changed its name to the Society for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology in this year.

What is 2015?

200

Individuals who believe that the chief principle of developmental change in an individual is maturation.

Maturational Theorists 



200

Enduring and consistent internal attributes that an individual possesses and exhibits.

What are traits?

200

The most commonly used spatial reference system.

What is the Cartesian Coordinate System?



200

A region of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary motor functions.

What is the motor cortex?

200

Giovanni Alphonso Borelli published De Moti Animalium.

What is 1679?

300

This theory suggests that individuals do not receive feedback from the joints, proprioceptors, and muscles of the body during movement and that body movements are completely preplanned prior to the initiation of the movement.

What is the open-loop system theory?

300

In 1884 he published what is considered to be the first article related to psychology and exercise

Who is Conrad Rieger?

300

Considered "the father of biomechanics."

Who is/was Giovanni Alphonso Borelli?

300

Nervous structures in the body that are responsible for sensing body position.

What are proprioceptors? 



300
Franklin Henry proposed the "Memory Drum Theory."

What is 1960?

400

The interference that results from practicing several different tasks within the context of a single practice session

What is contextual interference? 

400

Likely the first sports psychologist. 

Who is Coleman R. Griffith?

400

A point around which the body's weight is equally balanced, regardless of how the body is positioned. 

What is Center of Gravity? 

400

This theory suggests that all the possible factors that may be in operation at any given developmental moment must be considered at that specific moment in time

What is Dynamic Systems Theory?

400

The first year that the the Journal of Applied Biomechanics was published. 

What is 1985?

500

A process that requires an individual to actively choose one unit of information to pay attention to at a time.

What is selective attention?

500

This hypothesis states that as arousal increases from low to moderate levels, there is an increase in skill performance but as arousal continues to increase, there is a point when performance begins to decline.

What is the Inverted U Hypothesis?

500

Central imaginary lines about which angular motion occurs.

What is Axis of Rotation?



500

These structures in the central nervous system  are responsible for movement modulation, movement organization, scale and amplitude of movement, and perceptual-motor integration.

What are the Basal Ganglia? 

500

In this year the  North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity was founded. 

What is 1967?