Flashcards on Motor Skills mid term
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Which of the following would best measure learning?
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Retention Test
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Which of the following is administered directly following the practice period?
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Post Test
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Which of the following is a period of time during the learning process in which no overt changes in performance occur?
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Performance Plateau
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Although a learner can perform a skill consistently, it does not necessarily mean the skill is being ....
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Performed accurately
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in the early stages of skill acquisition, a learner does which of the following?
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freezes the degrees of freedom
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For an open skill which of the following conditions should be practiced?
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varying regulatory conditions and varying non-regulatory conditions
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In the fixation/diversification of gentiles stage of learning model, which instructional strategy is recommended for closed skills with inter-trial variability?
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Diversification
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Which of the following is a role that the practitioner NO LONGER plays when a learner is in the associative stage of learning?
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Providing initial instructions
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"in the autonomous stage, attentional focus is..."
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Reallocated to strategic decision making
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If a learner's movement lack synchronization and appears choppy and deliberate that learner is most likely in which stage of learning?
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Cognitive
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A learner who is capable of detecting some errors but still struggling to determine how to fix them is in which stage of learning?
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Associative
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Which of the following is NOT true of a short term memory?
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It has a limitless capacity
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Parkinson's disease is a result of under stimulation of the...
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Basal Ganglia
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Which part of the brain is responsible for higher brain function?
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Cerebral Cortex
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Which reflex would occur if an individual were to touch a hot stove?
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Withdrawal reflex
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Which of the following is NOT true of reflexes
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They must be integrated in the brain
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Which of the following propriocepters are found at the junction of the tendon and the muscle?
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Golgi Tendon Organs
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serves both central and peripheral visual fields
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The ambient system
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Electrical signals generated by the photoreceptors are sent to the brain via the
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Optic Nerve
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Which of the following is a photoreceptor that is specialized for dim light and enables us to see shapes and movement as well as discriminate between different shades of light and dark?
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Rods
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Stimuli regarding feelings such as hunger or nausea would be detected by which of the following?
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Interoceptors
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Which of the following provide information about body position and movement?
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Proprioceptors
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Which of the following detect stimuli outside of the body and provide information about the environment?
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Proprioceptors
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The wind is an example of what?
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Environmental Constraint
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"If a pitcher throws a change up and the hitter swings in anticipation of a fast ball, the hitter made an error in what?
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Parameter selection
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The difference between open and closed loop systems is
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Open loop runs as planned while closed loop can be modified
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Which of the following specifies the parameter values assigned to the generalized motor program?
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Schema
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The process of constraining available degrees of freedom to organize a movement pattern that will effectively achieve the goal of the task is called...
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Control
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Which of the following influences the optimal level of arousal?
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Task characteristics-learner characteristics
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An emotion resulting from an individual's perception of a situation as threatening is known as...
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Anticipation
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The attentional focus used when strategic analysis is required is...
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Broad internal
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The theory of attention that speculated that the flow of information is impeded at some point by an attentional filter is known as...
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Bottleneck theory
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Faking is explained by which of the following?
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Psychological refractory period
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Which of the following is not true of reaction time?
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It should not exceed 4 seconds
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According to hick's law, a racquetball player has an advantage if he or she has..
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A larger reperitoure of serves
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Which of the following is reaction time resulting from a stimulation involving options and how to respond?
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Choice reaction time
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Which of the following is true of reaction time?
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It is dependent on the processing demands imposed by a given situation
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The interval of time between the moment that a stimulus is presented to when a response is initiated is known as...
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Reaction time
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The ability to make repeated, rapid flexing movements is known as...
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Dynamic flexibility
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when assessing performance and making decisions which of the following must be considered?
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improvements in movement prficiency and consistency
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which of the following is NOT true or learning?
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it is directly observable
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skills can be classified according to ....
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taxonomies
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which of the following would be considered a closed skill
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bowling, chopping wood, taping an athletes ankle
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mountain biking which requires the performer to continually adapt his or her responses to conform to the trail would be considered what kind of skill?
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open skill
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Practice for open skills should emphasize which of the following?
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Context variability
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Which of the following skills has low inter-trial variability?
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Shot put
