KINESIOL 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Visual Search, Drop Shot, Increment And Decrement Operators
7 Mar 2018
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Why study motor skills: every action is a motor skill, applications in, music, high level sport, surgery, movement reacquisition, military. Industry: ergonomics, physical therapy (pt, occupational therapy (ot) Science of motor learning: theories made, hypotheses made, test these predictions with experiments, two or more groups, randomly assigned; control group, theory proven incorrect is valuable: ruled out. Components of skills: perception of relevant environmental features, decision on what to do, when and where to achieve goal, muscle activity organized to achieve goal. Open vs. closed skills: open: environment is variable and unpredictable during action, predicting other cars in traffic, tennis, closed: environment is stable and predictable during action, drilling hole in wood, laps in empty pool. Serial: discrete: beginning and end, usually brief movement time, firing rifle, throwing ball, writing your signature, continuous: no beginning or end, behaviour flowing on for a while, swimming, knitting, require tracking: limb controls lever/wheel/etc. to follow a track.
