KINE 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Computer Keyboard, Motor Skill, Biological Engineering
2 Oct 2017
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Skill - the ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy, or of time and energy. In sum, skills generally involve achieving some well-defined environmental goal by: Minimizing the physical and mental energy costs of performance, and. Three major kinds of components involved in the production of many skills: Postural components provide a platform to support the actions. Body transport components bring the body or limb to the action. Sensory or perceptual processes, studied in cognitive psychology and psychophysics; Decision-making processes, studied in cognitive and experimental psychology; Motor-control or movement-production processes, studied in the neurosciences, kinesiology, bioengineering, biomechanics, physical education, and physiology; Learning processes, studied in kinesiology, physical education, and educational and experimental psychology. Serial skill a group of discrete skills strung together to make up anew, more complicated skilled action implies that the order of the elements is usually critical for successful performance.
