ENS 307 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nikolai Bernstein, Scratch Reflex, Ferdinand Hitzig

• School: SDSU
• Department: Exercise and Nutritional Sciences
• Course: ENS 307
• Professor: Hedaya Rizeq

Document Summary

Lecture one: introduction, origins, and understanding of movement. Motor behavior: how motor skills are learned and controlled. Motor control: how the central nervous system is organized, uses sensory information, Motor learning: how movements are learned and adapted based upon experience and and controls movement practice. Mechanical and physical bases of biological systems. Function of cns in controlling muscles that move limbs. We can"t isolate a movement from its environment. Bessel: recording transit times of the movement of stars. Gilbreth; stimpel: most efficient ways to carry mortar and shoveling coal. Thorndike: law of effect responses that are rewarded tend to be repeated. Blix and weber: spring like properties of muscles. Fritsch and hitzig: the brain is electrically excitable. Wwii had major effects on motor skills research. Resulted in the creation of the u. s. army air force"s psycho-motor testing. To select the most suitable people for pilot testing.