Motor Control Exam 1 questions with
correct answers
Skill - correct answer ✔✔ability to bring about some end results with maximum certainty and minimum
outlay of energy or time of energy
3 elements critical to almost any skill - correct answer ✔✔1. perceiving the relevant environment
features
2. deciding what to do, and where and when to do it to achieve the goal
3. producing organized muscular activity to generate movements that achieve the goal
movements - correct answer ✔✔has no particular goal
skills consists of - correct answer ✔✔movements
Gross skills - correct answer ✔✔big muscles, larger groups of muscles
fine skills - correct answer ✔✔small muscles, finger related
open skills - correct answer ✔✔environment is variable and unpredictable during the action
closed skills - correct answer ✔✔environment is stable and predictable
discrete skills - correct answer ✔✔easily defined beginning and end, often with a very brief duration of
movement, good for daily life
serial skills - correct answer ✔✔group of discrete skills strung together to make up a new, more
complicated skilled action; follows a particular order
, continuous skills - correct answer ✔✔arbitrary beginning and end points, the behavior flowing for
minutes or hours
motor skills - correct answer ✔✔quality of a movement, decision making is minimized
cognitive skills - correct answer ✔✔quality of the performer's decisions regarding what to do, decision
making is maximized
motor performance - correct answer ✔✔observable attempt to produced a voluntary action
motor learning - correct answer ✔✔change in internal processes that determine the capability of
producing a motor task
constant error (CE) - correct answer ✔✔average all the scores for each subject, interpreted as an overall
tendency to underthrow or overthrow a target
absolute error (AE) - correct answer ✔✔consider the absolute value of the error on each trial and take
the average of those error scores for the various trials, interpreted as one person or group being more
off target than another
variable error (VE) - correct answer ✔✔measure of the subject's inconsistency, computed by squaring
the difference between each trial's error score and the subject's constant error
error scores in discrete tasks - correct answer ✔✔constant error, absolute error, and variable error
what is the stage of information processing in which a person recognizes and distinguishes the input?
a. Stimulus identification
b. Response selection
c. Response interpretation
d. Movement programming - correct answer ✔✔a
correct answers
Skill - correct answer ✔✔ability to bring about some end results with maximum certainty and minimum
outlay of energy or time of energy
3 elements critical to almost any skill - correct answer ✔✔1. perceiving the relevant environment
features
2. deciding what to do, and where and when to do it to achieve the goal
3. producing organized muscular activity to generate movements that achieve the goal
movements - correct answer ✔✔has no particular goal
skills consists of - correct answer ✔✔movements
Gross skills - correct answer ✔✔big muscles, larger groups of muscles
fine skills - correct answer ✔✔small muscles, finger related
open skills - correct answer ✔✔environment is variable and unpredictable during the action
closed skills - correct answer ✔✔environment is stable and predictable
discrete skills - correct answer ✔✔easily defined beginning and end, often with a very brief duration of
movement, good for daily life
serial skills - correct answer ✔✔group of discrete skills strung together to make up a new, more
complicated skilled action; follows a particular order
, continuous skills - correct answer ✔✔arbitrary beginning and end points, the behavior flowing for
minutes or hours
motor skills - correct answer ✔✔quality of a movement, decision making is minimized
cognitive skills - correct answer ✔✔quality of the performer's decisions regarding what to do, decision
making is maximized
motor performance - correct answer ✔✔observable attempt to produced a voluntary action
motor learning - correct answer ✔✔change in internal processes that determine the capability of
producing a motor task
constant error (CE) - correct answer ✔✔average all the scores for each subject, interpreted as an overall
tendency to underthrow or overthrow a target
absolute error (AE) - correct answer ✔✔consider the absolute value of the error on each trial and take
the average of those error scores for the various trials, interpreted as one person or group being more
off target than another
variable error (VE) - correct answer ✔✔measure of the subject's inconsistency, computed by squaring
the difference between each trial's error score and the subject's constant error
error scores in discrete tasks - correct answer ✔✔constant error, absolute error, and variable error
what is the stage of information processing in which a person recognizes and distinguishes the input?
a. Stimulus identification
b. Response selection
c. Response interpretation
d. Movement programming - correct answer ✔✔a
