PHTY204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Epiphyseal Plate, Group Selection, 18 Months
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Define motor control: this is how humans plan and control movement, the ability to regulate or direct the mechanisms essential to movement. How the cns organizes muscles and joints into coordinated functional movements. How sensory information is used to select and control movement. How factors related to the individual, the task and the environment influence movement behavior. Outline some important terms related to motor control: coordination: overcoming the degrees of freedom problem, closed systems: this includes feedback, open loop: this includes feed forward. Integration of infantile/primitive reflexes to allow volitional movement to emerge: cognitive (learning), behavioral theory. Progression in development dependant on environmental affordances timing and frequency of oppurtunities: piagetian theory: Intellectual experimentation through play: formation operations, abstract thought, logical reasoning, dynamical systems: Motor control influence by interacting systems and subsystems. Developmental change a series of states of stability and instability. Constraints to development ie neural maturation and cognition, growth and biomechanical factors.
