KNS 200 Exam 3 Question and
answers already passed 2025/2026
Motor Behavior - correct answer ✔Understand how motor skills are learned, controlled, and how they
change over lifespan
basic goals of motor behavior - correct answer ✔skill development, control, change over time
motor behavior professions - correct answer ✔teaching: college, university
research: hospitals, military
motor learning - correct answer ✔aquisition of skilled movements as a result of practice
motor control - correct answer ✔neural, physical, behavioral aspects of movement
includes "automatic" skills/movements
is essential for movement
motor development - correct answer ✔developmental view of motor learning and motor control
across a lifespan
why use motor behavior? - correct answer ✔1. develop "expert performers"
2. teach, reach elite levels of performance, safety
3. understand the process of skill development, control, and change over time
4. explain response selection and response execution
measuring movements examples - correct answer ✔-reaction time
, -% of success (number of successful trials/number of attempts) x 100
-quantification of movement kinematics
Assessing movement task characteristics - correct answer ✔-continuous vs. discrete
-open vs. closed
open - correct answer ✔different every time
closed - correct answer ✔the same
learning is the _____ ____ ______ and is determined by _____ and ______. - correct answer ✔goal of
practice, retention, transfer
retention - correct answer ✔degree to which aspects of a skill can be performed after time without
practice
transfer - correct answer ✔degree to which practice on a skill improves performance of a different skill
(different but related)
novel tasks - correct answer ✔A task that is unknown and has never been attempted by a participant
things that matter when studying expert performers - correct answer ✔skill, decision making, game
performance
"information processing" model - correct answer ✔brain is a computer, the spin is wires, and the
muscles appear on the screen
answers already passed 2025/2026
Motor Behavior - correct answer ✔Understand how motor skills are learned, controlled, and how they
change over lifespan
basic goals of motor behavior - correct answer ✔skill development, control, change over time
motor behavior professions - correct answer ✔teaching: college, university
research: hospitals, military
motor learning - correct answer ✔aquisition of skilled movements as a result of practice
motor control - correct answer ✔neural, physical, behavioral aspects of movement
includes "automatic" skills/movements
is essential for movement
motor development - correct answer ✔developmental view of motor learning and motor control
across a lifespan
why use motor behavior? - correct answer ✔1. develop "expert performers"
2. teach, reach elite levels of performance, safety
3. understand the process of skill development, control, and change over time
4. explain response selection and response execution
measuring movements examples - correct answer ✔-reaction time
, -% of success (number of successful trials/number of attempts) x 100
-quantification of movement kinematics
Assessing movement task characteristics - correct answer ✔-continuous vs. discrete
-open vs. closed
open - correct answer ✔different every time
closed - correct answer ✔the same
learning is the _____ ____ ______ and is determined by _____ and ______. - correct answer ✔goal of
practice, retention, transfer
retention - correct answer ✔degree to which aspects of a skill can be performed after time without
practice
transfer - correct answer ✔degree to which practice on a skill improves performance of a different skill
(different but related)
novel tasks - correct answer ✔A task that is unknown and has never been attempted by a participant
things that matter when studying expert performers - correct answer ✔skill, decision making, game
performance
"information processing" model - correct answer ✔brain is a computer, the spin is wires, and the
muscles appear on the screen
