BIOL 1002 : Bio Test 1 - Ch. 19,20,21,22
Document Summary
Goals: to walk from front to back of an empty room. To walk from one store to another in a crowded mall. To walk on a treadmill: reasons to distinguish between skills and movements, people learn actions when they begin to learn or relearn motor skills, people can adapt the characteristics of a movement to achieve an action goal. Ex: using a cane to walk after being injured: actions and movements are evaluated with different types of measures. Ex: walking, jumping, throwing, and leaping: fine motor skills: use small musculature and need more precise movements for hand and finger movement. Ex: handwriting, typing, drawing, and sewing: the specificity of where movements of a skill begin and end, discrete motor skills: requires a specified beginning and end. Ex: flipping a light switch and hitting a piano key: continuous motor skills: have random beginning and end location usually simple, one-movement skills locations usually repetitive movements.
