KIN 3720 Quiz 1

MOTOR THIS, MOTOR THAT

100

An activity or task that requires voluntary movements of the joints and body segments to achieve a goal

Motor skill

200

The study of how movement changes over the lifespan

Motor development

300

The study of the acquisition and enhancement of motor skills

Motor learning

400

A change of location of body segments that does not meet the 4 characteristics of a motor skill

Movement

500

These are the four characteristics of motor skills

goal-directed, voluntary, head/body/limb movement, learned

MOTOR SKILL CLASSIFICATION

100

Three examples of fine motor skills

There are lots of options! 

200

A motor skill performed with in-motion or unstable environmental conditions 

Open motor skill

300

Three discrete motor skills

Often need to be highly specific.

400

Classify the skill of making the 8 ball in a game of pool at Sam's Place when it's very busy and people keep bumping into you and the table. 

Gross

Discrete

Open

500

Use Gentile's Taxonomy to classify the skill of handing off the baton after running the first leg of a 4x100 meter relay. 

4D

(Body transport, object, in-motion, variability) 

MEASURE MOVEMENT

100

Assesses the result of a movement

Performance outcome measure

200

At least three domains of outcome measures

Spatial, temporal, error, count/success rate

300

The time between the onset of movement and the completion of the skill

Movement time

400

This type of error ignores the positive or negative in the distance from the target

Absolute error

500

Calculate the constant error 

-1, 3, -6, 2

-0.5

MOTOR ABILITIES

100

The pattern of head, body, and limb movements

Coordination

200

Argument that there a single motor ability

General motor ability hypothesis

300

Identify a skill for which perceptual motor abilities are more important than physical proficiency abilities 

We used flying an airplane as the example in class

400

A plot to visualize a client/athlete motor abilities 

Spider plot or radar chart

500

Used to predict performance on new skills

Aptitude testing

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

100

This functional skill uses central pattern generators in the spinal cord

Locomotion/walking/gait

200

This is the functional skill I use to grab my water bottle

Prehension 

300

This is predicted by Fitt's law based on target size and distance

Movement time

400

This is the formula for index of difficulty (ID), including what the variable stand for.

2D/W

distance

width

500

Two important aspects of vision during catching

Tau is time to contact. 

Vision is most important 200-300 ms before contact