KPE 160 Final Uoft Questions and Correct Answers

KPE 160 Final Uoft Questions and Correct Answers Subdivisions of motor behaviour - correct answer motor control, motor learning, motor development Goal of motor control - correct answer to understand the set of cognitive and neural processes involved in the planning and execution of individual actions Goal of motor learning - correct answer to understand the set of challenges and processes of improving and perfecting a performance Goal of motor development - correct answer to understand the set of processes and factors leading to changes in performance and learning across the lifespan Cognitive/reductionist approach - correct answer functions can be derived from understanding the characteristics of the elements Complex/dynamical systems approach - correct answer functions cannot be derived from understanding the characteristics of the elements, but rather the whole system Focus of information processing approach of reductionism - correct answer the focus is on the manner in which stimulus information is used to bring about behaviour Neuroscience approach of reductionism - correct answer the focus is on the neural events underlying movement Active/endogenous movement - correct answer movement resulting from muscular contractions Passive/exogenous movement - correct answer movement resulting from forces that are external to the body Reflex action (motor responses) - correct answer involuntary and relatively stereotyped responses to specific stimuli — the result of a specific, unchanging neural network Characteristics of reflex action - correct answer short latency, generalized/stereotyped, conscious awareness does not precede response involuntarily, response is generally determined by stimulus, innate Voluntary action (motor responses) - correct answer a response resulting from higher order processing — the result of a flexible and variable neural network Characteristics of voluntary action - correct