Motor Learning
Practice Conditions
Constraint factors
Mosh pit
Theories
100

In this stage of motor learning, performance becomes refined with less reliance on visual feedback, while intrinsic feedback increases

Associative

100

A client wants to tie shoes independently. The OTR focuses on teaching the client the first step on how to make an "X" with the laces. The practice condition the OTR utilizes is to practice this step for several trials. Which type of practice condition is demonstrated in this example?

Blocked practice


100

The size, weight, and shape of an object being lifted are ________ aspects of the environment.

Regulatory

100

A young adult wants to learn how to snowboard. What stage of learning will the young adult be in when learning to understand task requirements of snowboarding?

Cognitive

100

Central pattern generators are an important part of which motor theory?

Motor program theory

200

This occurs when a person is able to apply a newly learned strategy to a new task in a new environment

Generalization

200

A client complains that s/he is having difficulty with transfers to and from the car. You take the client outside and practice car transfers several times. You observe that the client is moving faster and safer with each attempt. This is an example of

Blocked practice

200

What is the significance of the screw-home mechanism in occupations?

It allows for longer standing tolerance and knee stability for tasks

200

Your client wants to get back to playing baseball. Baseball is an ___________ task.


Open movement

200

What is a limitation of reflex/hierarchical theory?

Reflex/hierarchical theory cannot explain the dominance of reflex behavior in certain situations in normal adults.

300

Which of the following allows you to successfully complete your morning routines at home while you mentally reviewed your knowledge of movement for this test?

Autonomous stage of learning


300

An OTR demonstrates how to don a t-shirt and then has the client do the entire task without assistance. Which type of practice conditions is demonstrated in this example?

Whole practice

300

When a client reaches for a cup out of a cupboard overhead, what does the scapula need to do for proper shoulder flexion to occur?

Upward rotation; protraction

300

What is the primary difference between declarative learning and procedural or associative forms of learning?

Procedural and associative learning are reflexive and more automatic, which require frequent repetition for their formation in the brain.

300

Which of the following is true of reflex theory?

The presence or absence of a reflex in a given time frame may be indicative of a CNS deficit.

400

Your client must compensate for an injury. As a result, the client has to learn a new way to perform a task. You have the client repeat the steps involved in the new way back to you. This is associated with:

The cognitive phase of learning

400

Which of the following allows performance to be refined, with less reliance on visual feedback while intrinsic feedback increases?

Associative stage of learning

400

You realize that your client has a deficit in her sensory perceptual systems. This is a deficit in which of the following factors that affect movement?

Individual


400

When a client reaches for a cup out of a cupboard overhead in front of him, what are the prime movers for glenohumeral flexion?

Anterior deltoid and pectoralis major, clavicular portion


400

Your client is wheelchair bound and is having difficulty pushing himself up the wheelchair ramp at his home. He has a degenerative condition and wants to have his son, a contractor, adjust the ramp to make it easier for him to get into his house. This can be done by reducing the amount of force required to go up the ramp. In order to make it easier his son should make the ramp:

Longer


500

_______________ occur(s) when a person is able to apply a newly learned strategy to a new task in a new environment.

Generalization

500

Which of the following is an example of extrinsic feedback?

Knowledge of results

500

Your client has to go up on her toes to reach something on the top shelf of her cabinet. To go up on her toes, she is using a: (what type of lever)

Second-class lever

500

When you reach straight up into your closet to retrieve something from the top shelf, what arthrokinematic movements are occurring at the glenohumeral joint?

Posterior lateral glide


500

How many degrees of freedom do your MCP joints have?

Two