PEDS302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Proprioception, Perceptual Learning, Affordance

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS302
• Professor: Kelvin Jones

Document Summary

Perception, which leads to movement or movement that leads to perceptual development. Perception develops ahead of movement skills: movement skills are acquired with guidance from perceptual information, new actions make new information (perceptions) available. Exercise stimulates brain activity that facilitates learning and memory. Bertenthal, campos, & barrett (1984); kermoian & campos (1988: locomotor experience was provided to pre-walkers by baby walkers, locomotor experience, rather than age, was associated with response to heights, perception of spatial relationships was enhanced by locomotor experience. Ecological view: it is the affordance that is perceived: affordances involve what the environment permits, given the capabilities of the performer, they are perceived directly, without cognitive analysis of object characteristics. Example: stairs afford climbing: warren (1984) related stair height to leg length. Body scale is an individual"s size relative to the environment. Scaling of sports equipment and environments allows individuals of various sizes to perform similar movements. Self-generated opportunity for perceptual learning exists (tool use facilitates perceptual development).