KINESIOL 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Railways Act 1921
18 Apr 2016
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Tailored to the specific needs of the learner. Involves a set of processes: occurs in the cns. Produces an acquired capability: for a skilled performance. Improved capability from practice or experience: a deliberate attempt to achieve motor learning, not growth, maturation of evolution, not performance enhancing drugs. Not directly observable: learning reflects an ongoing reorganization of the cns. Motor cortex: training monkeys to reach for food pellets, from wells of different sizes. Cortical changes were specific to the nature of practice. Record performance changes over time: from practice. Indicates the changes that occur: doesn"t show permanance of learning. Coordination using multiple degrees of freedom. Reducing the proportion of total attentional capacity: allows you to monitor more things. Reduced effort required to produce a skill: reduced oxygen consumption, reduced heart rate, reduced pupil dilation. Thinking and performing outside the box": adaptability in novel or unfamiliar situations. Memory recall test: chess masters and beginners, 2 boards shown for 5 secs each.
