5 Motor Learning

Question 1

cam motor learning be directly observed

Answer 1

No, it’s neurological, so instead, we look at changes in performance overtime, but performance is temporary like cramming for test, whereas learning is permanent

Question 2

If permanent changes are being made to work for things should be happening in your body

Answer 2

level of neuronal activation, synaptic, efficiency, cortical, organization, changes in blood flow

Question 3

what is haituation & clinical applicatiom

Answer 3

A decrease in response to a repeated, benign stimulus, a.k.a. the ability to block a noise

clinical application – pain, exposed a pain in the safe matter and dizziness. I can’t fix vertigo, but I can fix your response to it with us to vestibular rehab.

Question 4

Describe the two associative forms of learning

Answer 4

Classical conditioning – stimulus to stimulus
apparent conditioning – behavior to consequence, a.k.a. pee in toilet get an m&m

Question 5

describe procedural learning

Answer 5

like riding a bike, Learning tasks that will eventually be performed automatically without attention or conscious thought this develops slowly and through repetition over many trials

Question 6

describe declaritive or explicit learning
what 3 thigns does it require

Answer 6

Knowledge that can be, consciously recalled like facts, requires awareness, attention, and reflection

Question 7

what is an advantage to declaritive or explicit learning

Answer 7

Can be practiced in ways other than the one in which it was learn like closing your eyes and envisioning something?

Question 8

what are Fitts 3 stages of motor learning

Answer 8

1- cognitive stage (understand how to preform a skill)
2- intermediate or associative stage (modify/ adapt mvmt pattern as needed)- facilitation/ manual guidence counterproductive here
3-autonomous stage (mvmt becomes automatic), can introduce distractors here

Question 9

what are the 3 neo-bernsteinian perspective stages of motor learning

Answer 9

1- novice (simplify mvmt by freezing out dof)
2- advanced (reinstate/ release additional dof)
3- expert- additional dof released, can exploite now (full send down a ramp)

Question 10

what is overlearning/ postmastery
learning

Answer 10

Retention better but
there is a point of diminishing returns

Question 11

what is the acquisition phase ? what does it access

Answer 11

the practice phase

acess preformence not true learning yet

Question 12

what is a criterion of mastery

Answer 12

an arbitary preformence standard used to decide when practice is good enough

trials neeed, time req, error number, etc.

tricky b/c diff studies use diff criteria and it makes comparison difficult

Question 13

retention vs transfer

Answer 13

retention- conditions the same as in the acquisition phase

transfer- conditions differ form those in acquisition phase

Question 14

what is the level of automaticity? how to access?

Answer 14

how much attn the task requires (access using dual task)