KIN 3513 Chapter : Ch 1 Notes
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The coordination and activation of muscular, skeletal, and neurological functions to produce movements. The process of changes due to practice or experience leading to improvements in motor skills in terms of accuracy, speed, and movement smoothness. Human developmental issues related to either motor control or motor learning. It provides you with a basis for establishing generalizations or principles about how we learn motor skills. Enables you to develop theories about skill performance and learning. Establishes guidelines for instructors, coaches, therapists about how to develop effective strategies to enhance motor skill learning. Requires movement of body, head, and/or limb(s) to achieve the action goal. Goal-directed activities that involve body, head and/or limb movements. What body, head and/or limb segments do when an action is performed. Can vary across performance and/or individuals for the same action. A variation of movements can be used to achieve the same action goal. Can change when someone becomes more skilled.