01:377:310 Midterm: REVIEW EXAM 1
12 Jan 2018
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Motor skills defined as- head body and or limb movements. 3 influences on performing motor skill- person themselves, skill itself, performance environment. Gross (large muscle groups) and fine (small muscle groups) motor skills. More of a complex movement and no arbitrary beg and end. Interval time between onset of stimulus and beginning of activity. Interval time from initial increase in muscle activity until actual limb movement. Rather work with bias can focus on correction. Kinematics - without regard to force or mass. Ability - trait or capacity of a person. General- a lot of abilities grouped together related. Not related - another layer of specificity. Task analysis - motor abilities underlying performance of the skill components. Motor unit- ultimate end of the motor neural information. Alpha motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates. Beg with smallest and weakest force and then gradually adding more. Important to know theories behind motor skill performance.
