Motor Learning Midterm 1

Motor Performance is affected by many factors, resulting in performance fluctuations that may be PERMANENT in nature.

Motor Learning is characterized by changes in internal processes that determine an individual's capability for producing a motor task. These changes are classified as TEMPORARY in nature.

For a movement to qualify as a skill it does not have to have a desired environmental goal.

Achieving a goal in a minimum time is a feature of a skill.

Being skilled implies meeting the desired goal with maximum certainty.

A major feature of a skill is the minimization of energy required for performance.

According to H.W. Johnson's (1961) categorization, which of the following factors does not play a role in determining skill:
a. strength
b. spped
c. accuracy
d. form
e. adaptability

Which of the following is not one of the notable individuals listed in class:
a. Paul M. Fitts
b. Franklin M. Henry
c. Richard B. Smith
d. Jack A. Adams
e. Richard A. Schmidt

Discrete motor skills are the ones not mentioned in public.

Continuous motor skills are reoccuring tasks.

An example of a serial motor skill given in class is pole vaulting.

Variable error tells you how consistent the performance is.

Constant error tells you how consistent the performance is.

Rxn time is the time between the beginning of a response and its completion.

Movement time is the time between the onset of a stimulus and the completing of the response