Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Workload, Motor Skill, Distracted Driving
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What are motor skills: activities or tasks that require voluntary control over movements to achieve a goal. Valuable to have very applicable, the science how to teach someone on how to form a skill. Motor learning emphasizes the acquisition of motor skills, the enhancement of performance, and the reacquisition of skills after injury, disease, etc. Skill can refer to an activity/task, or can be an indicator of the quality of performance. Some skills require different sizes of primary muscles. Larger muscle groups are used to achieve gross motor skills (walking, jumping) large muscle groups big movements. Small muscles are used more for control and precision, especially hand-eye coordination. Where a skill begins and ends can also be used to classify it: A discrete motor skill: one with a clearly defined beginning and end to its movements points. Flicking a light switch or pressing a button. A serial motor skill: contains a series of distinct parts.