Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Central Nervous System, Dependent And Independent Variables, Mental Chronometry
22 Sep 2015
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Kin 1088b test #2 wed, march 4th, 2015. The scientific method: first lecture for test #2. Goals of science: understand, describe, explain - impact, control group to understand, predict - known values to predict what is going to happen. Empiricism: verification by observation (need to see to believe, proposals are subjected to a test, perform an experiment and obtain data. Scientific method: science, a process of gathering knowledge about the world. Making hypothesis about nature of things and testing these hypotheses. Provides a systematic approach: science is just one way of acquiring knowledge. Interpret finding in a way that contribute to the literature. Identifying motor skills types: 3 components used, task organization, motor and cognitive elements, level of environmental predictability, allow practitioners distinguish between. Task organization: discrete skills beginning and end. Standing up: serial skill sequence, continuous skill repetitive fashion. A skill that is organized such that the action is usually brief and has a well define.
