Chapter 7: Lesson 6

Question 1

Motor behavior

Answer 1

Motor response to internal and external environmental stimuli.

Question 2

Motor control

Answer 2

How the central nervous system integrates internal and external sensory information with previous experiences to produce a motor response.

Question 3

Motor learning

Answer 3

Integration of motor control processes through practice and experience, leading to a relatively permanent change in the capacity to produce skilled motor behavior.

Question 4

Motor development

Answer 4

Change in skilled motor behavior over time throughout the life span.

Question 5

Muscle synergies

Answer 5

Groups of muscles that are recruited simultaneously by the central nervous system to provide movement.

Question 6

Mechanoreceptors

Answer 6

Specialized structures that respond to mechanical forces (touch and pressure) within tissues and then transmit signals through sensory nerves.

Question 7

Proprioception

Answer 7

The body’s ability to naturally sense its general orientation and relative position of its parts.

Question 8

Sensorimotor integration

Answer 8

Cooperation of the nervous and muscular system in gathering and interpreting information and executing movement.

Question 9

Feedback

Answer 9

Use of sensory information and sensorimotor integration to help the human movement system in motor learning.

Question 10

Internal feedback

Answer 10

Process whereby sensory information is used by the body to reactively monitor movement and the environment.

Question 11

External feedback

Answer 11

Information provided by some external source, such as a fitness professional, video, mirror, or heart rate monitor, to supplement the internal environment.

Question 12

Neuromuscular efficiency

Answer 12

The ability of the nervous system to recruit the correct muscles to produce force, reduce force, and dynamically stabilize the body’s structure in all three planes of motion.