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ch 8
exam 1
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Health Care
Undergraduate 2
03/05/2011

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Specificity of Practice

Definition
The finding that only practice conditions similar to game performance with benefit future game performance
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Goals of Motor Behavior

Definition

studies all levels of skills in all people

                  -Understand how motor skills are learned

                                    a) Explain how processes such as feedback and practice improve learning                                     and performance of motor skills

                                    b) Explain how response selection and response execution become more                                                      efficient and effective

                  -Understand how motor skills are controlled

                                    a) Analyze how the mechanisms in response selection and response                                                       execution control the body’s movement

                                    b) Explain how environmental and individual factors affect the                                                                        mechanisms of response selection and response execution

                  -Understand how learning and control of motor skills change across the life span

                                    a) Explain how motor learning and control improve during childhood

                                    b) Explain how motor learning and control deteriorate with aging

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Electromyography (EMG)— 

Definition
A system for monitoring and recording the electrical activity in muscles
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Reaction Time

Definition
Speed of a response to light or sound, simple reaction time involves pressing a button after seeing the signal; choice reaction time involves choosing from among more than one button to press, depending on what signal was seen
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Novel Learning Tasks

Definition
A movement task with which the subject does not have prior experience; usually simple movements like linear positioning or tracking
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Kinematics

Definition
A description of movement, based on mechanical physics, in which movement characteristics like position, velocity, and acceleration are recorded
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Feedback (Intrinsic and Extrinsic

Definition
Information about the movement provided on the learner during and after a movement; this information may come from external sources (instructor/video) or internal sources (muscles, joints, through the nervous system)
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