KNS 200 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What are the goals of motor behavior? - answer -to understand how motor skills are
learned and controlled and how these skills change across the life span
When can motor skills be learned? - answer -at any age
What 2 things are key for development? - answer -practice & feedback
Which system deals with how motor skills are controlled? - answer -neuromuscular
system
What age group develops fundamental motor skills? - answer -infants to 1 year olds
Why do we use motor behavior? - answer -to understand the process of skill
development, control, and change over time (basic goals)
Why do we want to use motor behavior to develop expert performers? - answer -to
teach, to reach elite levels of sport and performance, and for safety
3 subdisciplines of motor behavior - answer -motor learning, motor control, motor
development
Motor _____ is the acquisition of skilled movements as a result of practice - answer -
learning
Motor _____ is the neural, physical, and behavioral aspects of movement - answer -
control
Motor control includes which types of movements? - answer -automatic, essential for all
movement
Motor _____ is the developmental view of motor learning and motor control across a life
span - answer -development
Examples of motor movements beyond sport - answer -babies learning to use spoon
and fork
Dentists learning to control drill while looking in mirror
Surgeons controlling a scalpel; microscopic surgeons using laser
Children learning to ride a bicycle or to roller skate
Teenagers learning to drive
, What are 4 techniques of research methods for motor behavior? - answer -measuring
movements, assessimg movement task characteristics, measuring learning, and
studying expert performers
What is measured when measuring movements? - answer -reaction time
% success rate (# successful trials divided by the # of attempts)
Quantification of movement kinematics
What is measured when assessing movement task characteristics? - answer -
continuous vs. Discrete types of tasks as well as open vs. Closed types of tasks
Example of continuous task - answer -walking, running, cycling
Activity repeated over and over
Example of discrete task - answer -throwing a baseball, kicking a soccer ball, standing
back flip, archery
Beginning and end are different
Example of open task - answer -batter won't see same pitch every at bat, quarterback
must adjust to game situations
Different environment each time; a lot of thought process to act on situation; makes it
harder
Example of closed task - answer -pitching machine, bowling, archery
Similar/same environment each time
Learning is a goal of _____ - answer -practice
What is learning determined by? - answer -retention and transfer
What is retention? - answer -degree to which aspects of skill a can be effectively
performed after a period of time with no practice
What is transfer? - answer -degree to which practice on skill a improves performance
on skill b (usually different but related skills)
Ex: different types of serves --> tennis vs. Badminton
What is learned? - answer -novel vs. Usual tasks
What are the goals of motor behavior? - answer -to understand how motor skills are
learned and controlled and how these skills change across the life span
When can motor skills be learned? - answer -at any age
What 2 things are key for development? - answer -practice & feedback
Which system deals with how motor skills are controlled? - answer -neuromuscular
system
What age group develops fundamental motor skills? - answer -infants to 1 year olds
Why do we use motor behavior? - answer -to understand the process of skill
development, control, and change over time (basic goals)
Why do we want to use motor behavior to develop expert performers? - answer -to
teach, to reach elite levels of sport and performance, and for safety
3 subdisciplines of motor behavior - answer -motor learning, motor control, motor
development
Motor _____ is the acquisition of skilled movements as a result of practice - answer -
learning
Motor _____ is the neural, physical, and behavioral aspects of movement - answer -
control
Motor control includes which types of movements? - answer -automatic, essential for all
movement
Motor _____ is the developmental view of motor learning and motor control across a life
span - answer -development
Examples of motor movements beyond sport - answer -babies learning to use spoon
and fork
Dentists learning to control drill while looking in mirror
Surgeons controlling a scalpel; microscopic surgeons using laser
Children learning to ride a bicycle or to roller skate
Teenagers learning to drive
, What are 4 techniques of research methods for motor behavior? - answer -measuring
movements, assessimg movement task characteristics, measuring learning, and
studying expert performers
What is measured when measuring movements? - answer -reaction time
% success rate (# successful trials divided by the # of attempts)
Quantification of movement kinematics
What is measured when assessing movement task characteristics? - answer -
continuous vs. Discrete types of tasks as well as open vs. Closed types of tasks
Example of continuous task - answer -walking, running, cycling
Activity repeated over and over
Example of discrete task - answer -throwing a baseball, kicking a soccer ball, standing
back flip, archery
Beginning and end are different
Example of open task - answer -batter won't see same pitch every at bat, quarterback
must adjust to game situations
Different environment each time; a lot of thought process to act on situation; makes it
harder
Example of closed task - answer -pitching machine, bowling, archery
Similar/same environment each time
Learning is a goal of _____ - answer -practice
What is learning determined by? - answer -retention and transfer
What is retention? - answer -degree to which aspects of skill a can be effectively
performed after a period of time with no practice
What is transfer? - answer -degree to which practice on skill a improves performance
on skill b (usually different but related skills)
Ex: different types of serves --> tennis vs. Badminton
What is learned? - answer -novel vs. Usual tasks
