KNS 200 Exam #3 Questions with
complete solution 2025/2026
What are the goals of motor behavior? - correct answer ✔To understand how motor skills are learned
To understand how motor skills are controlled
To understand how the learning and control of motor skills change across the life span
Why use motor behavior? - correct answer ✔to understand the process of skill development, control,
and change over time (basic goals)
Effective use of cues and feedback - correct answer ✔guides us in providing better situations for
learning and practice
Why do we develop expert performers? - correct answer ✔1. to teach
2. to reach elite levels of sports performance
3. safety
three subdiciplines of motor behavior - correct answer ✔1. motor learning
2. motor control
3. motor development
motor learning - correct answer ✔acquisition of skilled movements as a result of practice
motor control - correct answer ✔the neural, physical, and behavioral aspects of movement
,1. includes 'automatic' skills/movements
2. essential for all movements
motor development - correct answer ✔developmental view of motor learning and motor control
across a lifespan
Motor Movements Beyond Sport - correct answer ✔•Babies learning to use a fork and spoon
•Dentists learning to control drill while looking in a mirror
•Surgeons controlling a scalpel; microsurgeons using laser
•Children learning to ride a bicycle or to roller skate
•Teenagers learning to drive
Research Methods for motor behavior: Measuring movements - correct answer ✔1. reaction time
2. successful trials/# attempts
3. quantification of movement kinetics
Research methods for motor behavior: assessing movement task characteristics - correct answer ✔1.
continuous vs discrete
2. open vs closed
Research methods for motor behavior: measuring learning - correct answer ✔1. learning is the goal of
practice
2. Learning is determined by retention and transfer
3. learning what?
-novel tasks vs usual tasks
, retention - correct answer ✔degree to which aspects of Skill A can be effectively performed after a
period of time with no practice
transfer - correct answer ✔degree to which practice on Skill A improves performance on Skill B
(different but related)
What do expert performers do during practice and competition? How does it differ from novices? -
correct answer ✔- Skill
- Decision making
- Game performance
Note on Transference - correct answer ✔- Knowledge and skills of sport are often highly specific to that
sport
- In many cases, information that helps us understand how learning occurs across many other skills
Different yet related skills where transference can happen? - correct answer ✔Volleyball serve and
tennis serve
Overview of Knowledge in Motor Behavior - correct answer ✔'Information Processing' model
Goal of Motor behavior - correct answer ✔explain response selection and response execution
how many motor learning principles are there? - correct answer ✔6
principle 1 - correct answer ✔Correct practice improves performance and supports learning
principle 2 - correct answer ✔augmented feedback enhances practice (and thereby learning)
complete solution 2025/2026
What are the goals of motor behavior? - correct answer ✔To understand how motor skills are learned
To understand how motor skills are controlled
To understand how the learning and control of motor skills change across the life span
Why use motor behavior? - correct answer ✔to understand the process of skill development, control,
and change over time (basic goals)
Effective use of cues and feedback - correct answer ✔guides us in providing better situations for
learning and practice
Why do we develop expert performers? - correct answer ✔1. to teach
2. to reach elite levels of sports performance
3. safety
three subdiciplines of motor behavior - correct answer ✔1. motor learning
2. motor control
3. motor development
motor learning - correct answer ✔acquisition of skilled movements as a result of practice
motor control - correct answer ✔the neural, physical, and behavioral aspects of movement
,1. includes 'automatic' skills/movements
2. essential for all movements
motor development - correct answer ✔developmental view of motor learning and motor control
across a lifespan
Motor Movements Beyond Sport - correct answer ✔•Babies learning to use a fork and spoon
•Dentists learning to control drill while looking in a mirror
•Surgeons controlling a scalpel; microsurgeons using laser
•Children learning to ride a bicycle or to roller skate
•Teenagers learning to drive
Research Methods for motor behavior: Measuring movements - correct answer ✔1. reaction time
2. successful trials/# attempts
3. quantification of movement kinetics
Research methods for motor behavior: assessing movement task characteristics - correct answer ✔1.
continuous vs discrete
2. open vs closed
Research methods for motor behavior: measuring learning - correct answer ✔1. learning is the goal of
practice
2. Learning is determined by retention and transfer
3. learning what?
-novel tasks vs usual tasks
, retention - correct answer ✔degree to which aspects of Skill A can be effectively performed after a
period of time with no practice
transfer - correct answer ✔degree to which practice on Skill A improves performance on Skill B
(different but related)
What do expert performers do during practice and competition? How does it differ from novices? -
correct answer ✔- Skill
- Decision making
- Game performance
Note on Transference - correct answer ✔- Knowledge and skills of sport are often highly specific to that
sport
- In many cases, information that helps us understand how learning occurs across many other skills
Different yet related skills where transference can happen? - correct answer ✔Volleyball serve and
tennis serve
Overview of Knowledge in Motor Behavior - correct answer ✔'Information Processing' model
Goal of Motor behavior - correct answer ✔explain response selection and response execution
how many motor learning principles are there? - correct answer ✔6
principle 1 - correct answer ✔Correct practice improves performance and supports learning
principle 2 - correct answer ✔augmented feedback enhances practice (and thereby learning)
