Question Bank in line with Motor Control and Learning Concepts and Applications,Magill,10e

Test Bank
to accompany the 10th edition of


Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications
by Richard A. Magill and David I. Anderson



CHAPTER 1


The Classification of Motor Skills


Multiple Choice


1) The performance of any motor skill is influenced by characteristics of:

a) The performer

b) The environment

c) The skill itself

d) All of the above

Ans: D


2) The term skill is used to denote:

a) A task that has a specific purpose or goal to achieve

b) The degree of competence or capacity to perform a task

c) The activity in nervous system that underlies movement

d) A and B

Ans: D



3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of skills and actions:

a) They are innate

, b) There is a goal to achieve

c) They are performed voluntarily

d) They require movement of joints and body segments

Ans: A



1) Locomotion is an example of which of the following terms?
a) Movement
b) Ability
c) Performance measure
d) Action
Ans: D


2) The specific pattern of limb motions used in throwing a ball is an example of:

a) An action

b) A movement

c) A neuromotor process

d) A reflex

Ans: B



3) The relationship between movements and actions is:

a) Many-to-one

b) One-to-many

c) Many-to-one and one-to-many

d) Movements and actions are not related

Ans: C



4) If a motor skill requires the use of large musculature and does not require precision of
movement for successful performance, then the skill would best be classified as a:

, a) Fine motor skill
b) Gross motor skill
c) Discrete motor skill
d) Open motor skill
Ans: B


5) Which of the following skills is a discrete motor skill?
a) Riding a bicycle
b) Swimming the crawl stroke
c) Steering a car on a highway
d) Striking a typewriter key
Ans: D


6) Shifting from second to third gear in a car is an example of which type of motor skill?
a) Open motor skill
b) Fine motor skill
c) Serial motor skill
d) Continuous motor skill
Ans: C


7) Motor skills that require the performer to initiate a specific action on an object
according to the object’s motion are best categorized as:
a) Open motor skills
b) Closed motor skills
c) Discrete motor skills
d) Continuous motor skills
Ans: A


8) Which term is sometimes used synonymously with the term closed motor skills?
a) Other-paced motor skills
b) Externally-paced motor skills
c) Forced-paced motor skills
d) Self-paced motor skills
Ans: D

, 9) Gentile’s taxonomy of motor skills includes which of the following factors as part of the
“environmental context” dimension?
a) Intertrial variability
b) Object location
c) Object orientation
d) Body transport
Ans: A


10) Which of the following skill category distinctions is popular in textbooks related to
methods of teaching motor skills?
a) Gross vs. fine motor skills
b) Discrete vs. continuous motor skills
c) Open vs. closed motor skills
d) Stability vs. transport motor skills
Ans: C


11) Returning a serve in tennis is an example of which of the following types of motor skills?
a) Self-paced motor skill
b) Open motor skill
c) Closed motor skill
d) Stationary motor skill
Ans: B


12) According to Gentile’s taxonomy of motor skills, which of the following describes the
least complex skill?
a) Regulatory conditions stationary; object manipulated

b) Regulatory conditions in motion; object manipulated
c) Regulatory conditions stationary; no object manipulated
d) Regulatory conditions in motion; no object manipulated
Ans: C


13) Riding a surfboard on multiple waves would be classified in Gentile’s taxonomy as:

a) Stationary environment, inter-trial variability, body transport