Motor Skills - Answers Activities or tasks that require voluntary control over movements of the joints
and body segments to achieve a goal
Motor Learning - Answers The acquisition of motor skills
Performance enhancement of learned or highly experienced motor skills
The reacquisition of skills that are difficult to perform or cannot be performed because of injury, disease,
and the like.
Motor Control - Answers How our neuromuscular system functions to activate and coordinate the
muscles and limbs involved in the performance of a motor skill.
Motor Development - Answers human development from infancy to old age with specific interest in
issues related to either motor learning or motor control
Skill - Answers An activity or task that has a specific purpose or goal to achieve; an indicator of quality of
performance
Three influences on how we perform a motor skill - Answers The person, performance environment, the
skill
Actions - Answers Synonymous with motor skills
Movements - Answers Specific patterns of motion among joints and body segments used to accomplish
action goals
Characteristics of motor skills and actions - Answers Goal to achieve
Voluntary
Requires body movement
Why distinguish movements from skills/actions? - Answers - People initially learn to achieve action goals
- People use a variety of movement characteristics to achieve the same action goal
- People use different types of measures to evaluate actions and movements
Why classify motor skills - Answers -Provides basis for identifying similarities/differences among skills
-Helps identify demands different skills place on performer/learner
-Provides basis for developing principles related to performing and learning motor skills
Three (3) One-Dimension Classification Systems - Answers Size of primary musculature required