KINESIOL 1E03 Chapter 1-4: Kin 1E03 Textbook Notes - Chapter 1 -4.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 1E03
• Professor: Tim Lee

Document Summary

1e03 motor learning and performance textbook notes. In terms of the proficiency a person demonstrates when performing a movement (e. g. michael jordan shooting a basketball) Skills classified by the relative importance of motor and cognitive elements. Motor skills and cognitive skills are on opposite sides of the continuum whereas most skills lie in between: more effective way of classifying skills is to consider the degree to which cognitive/motor elements contribute. Regulatory variability for closed skills is generally minimal. For open skills, regulatory variability is considerable. Playing the flute walking on a city sidewalk. Balancing on alternate feet while on a moving escalator. Walking on a city sidewalk while pulling a wagon. Dribbling a soccer ball while in motion without a defender. Guthrie skill proficiency consists in the ability to bring about some end result w/ maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy, or of time and energy .