Motor Control Final Exam 2023 with 100% correct answers

Coordination the patterning of body and limb motions relative to the patterning of environmental objects and events Degrees of Freedom the number of independent elements or components in a control system and the number of ways each component can act Degrees of Freedom Problem a control problem that occurs in the designing of a complex system that must produce a specific result; the design problem involves determining how to constrain the system's many degrees of freedom so that it can produce the specific result Open-loop control system a control system in which all the information needed to initiate and carry out an action as planned is contained in the initial instructions to the effectors Closed-loop control system a control system in which during the course of an action, feedback is compared against a standard or reference to enable an action to be carried out as planned Feedback information from the sensory system that indicates the status of a movement to the central nervous system; in a closed-loop system, feedback is used to make corrections to an ongoing movement Motor Program a memory representation that stores information needed to perform an action Generalized Motor Program the general memory representation of a class of actions that share common invariant characteristics; it provides the basis for controlling a specific action within the class of actions Invariant features a unique set of characteristics that defines a GMP and does not vary from one performance of the action to another Parameters features of the GMP that can be varied from one performance of a skill to another; these features must be added to the invariant features of a GMP before a person can perform a skill to meet the specific demands of a situation Relative time the proportion of the total amount of time required by each of the various components of a skill during the performance of that skill