Exam 2: Modules 3-5 Flashcards
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human processing can be conceptualized in several ways, one of which is the __________________
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information processing approach
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if info processing cannot be directly observed, how can it be studied?
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RT method
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in the RT method, RT is used as a _____________ to study the duration and nature of info processing
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dependent variable
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the time between the stimulus and the beginning of the movement
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RT
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the time between the beginning and end of a movement
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movement time
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RT+movement time
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response time
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device that is used to record the activity of a muscle
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EMG
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what does the flat line on an EMG mean?
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muscle is relaxed
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what does the wiggle line on an EMG mean?
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muscle is contracted
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why is RT important? (3 reasons)
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-important component of skilled motor performance
-can be used to better understand info processing
-measure of how long stages of info processing takes
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what are the 3 distinct stages of info processing?
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stimulus identification, response selection, movement programming
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stimulus detection+pattern identification; stage where stimulus is both learned and inherited
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stimulus identification
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do humans respond faster to light or sounds?
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sounds
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t or f: the idea that humans respond faster to sound than light proves that stimulus identification exists
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true
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a genetic capability to react when something comes close to and consequently gets big at your face
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looming
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decision-making stage; studied by manipulating the number of possible response alternatives(independent variable) and measuring RT(dependent variable)
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response selection
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t or f: as number of choices increase, RT decreases
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false; RT increases
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describes a linear relationship between Log_2 and the number of possible response alternatives(N); every time the number of stimulus-response alternatives doubles, RT increases by a constant amount
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Hick’s Law
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the “statement of a stable relationship between 2 variables”
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scientific law
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laws allow us to _________
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predict
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t or f: laws in behavioral sciences are rare
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true
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when uncertainty increases, your RT will ______________ by a predictable amount; ex tennis(see notes)
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increase
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stage devoted to movement response
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movement programming
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what is an example of an experiment that displays the movement programming stage?
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Henry and Rogers Experiment(1960)
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what is the dependent variable in the Henry and Rogers Experiment? independent variable?
RT; movement complexity
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what did the Henry and Rogers Experiment find? (2 parts)
increase in movement complexity=increase in RT; humans organize/plan movements in advance
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what concept are the results of the Henry and Rogers Experiment consistent with?
motor program
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refers to expecting or predicting what is going to happen in the environment(stimulus); can influence info processing
anticipation
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what are the 2 types of anticipation?
spatial and temporal
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anticipation where you know what your stimulus will be, just not when it will occur; you can decide your response in advance
spatial anticipation
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anticipation where you know when the stimulus will occur, just not what it will be, you can begin movement programming in advance of stimulus
temporal anticipation
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to take advantage of ___________ anticipation, you must have ____________ anticipation
temporal; spatial
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having temporal and spatial anticipation eliminates what 2 stages of info processing?
stimulus identification and response selection
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what happens to sprinters in a track meet when they start earlier than 100ms after the start? why?
they are disqualified because it is believed that they anticipated the start, which would be unfair
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the capacity to process info
attention
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attention is a _____________ resource
limited
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occurs when your demand for attention exceeds your capacity to allocate attention, causing your performance to suffer
interference
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______________ killed 3142 people and injured 424,000 people in the US in 2019, causes 9 deaths, and 1161 injuries per day
distracted driving
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_____% of distractions while driving are avoidable
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what 2 types of processing are used?
parallel and serial
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processing where you can deal with other things at the same time
parallel processing
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processing where you must deal with the task before moving on
serial processing
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what type(s) of processing is/are the norm during stimulus identification?
parallel
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demand for attention during stimulus identification is ______
low
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what phenomenon proves the presence of parallel processing during stimulus identification? how?
stroop effect--brain sees color and word at exactly the same time, causing conflict
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what type(s) of processing is/are the norm during response selection?
both parallel and serial
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how do you determine what type of processing is used in response selection?
depends on the amount of practice
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slow, serial processing, attention demanding
controlled processing
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fast, parallel processing, not attention demanding
automatic processing
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what type(s) of processing is/are used during movement programming?
serial
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how is serial processing in the movement programming stage studied?
double-stimulation paradigm
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what causes the delay in the double-stimulation paradigm
the presence of S1
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what is the delay in the double-stimulation paradigm called?
psychological refractory period
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what causes the psychological refractory period
bottleneck
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SOAs between ___ and ___ms will produce the psychological refractory period; which causes the longest delay?
50 and 300; 50
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how long does it take S1 to leave the bottleneck?
300ms
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what is the benefit to the psychological refractory period? explain
may be protective--ensures that a response to a dangerous stimulus is produced without interference
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focus that monitors the feeling of an ongoing movement
internal focus
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focusing on a target, such as an object to be struck or the intended effect the action will have on the environment
external focus
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which type of focus results in better performance?
external
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what is the notion of why internal focus is detrimental called? explain
constrained action hypothesis--internal focus may cause someone to try to control movement, which may interfere with automatic/unconscious control
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________ can influence arousal
stress
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the __________________ represents a view of the relationship between arousal and performance
inverted-u principle
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explain the inverted-u principle
increased arousal enhances performance to a certain point, but after that can be detrimental
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tendency for the perceptual field to shrink; this is important because it allows the person to devote more attention to those sources of info that are immediately most likely and relevant; excessive arousal could mean missing information
perceptual narrowing
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scenario in which a performer changes a hormonal routine or fails to adapt to a changing situation in a failed performance
choking under pressure
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what commonly causes choking under pressure?
a change from external to internal focus
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what are the 2 types of human control systems?
open-loop and closed-loop
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what are the 3 components of a closed-loop system?
executive, effector, and comparator
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part of closed-loop system that makes decisions
executive
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worker part of closed-loop system
effector
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part of closed-loop system that compares what was intended to what is happening; computes error
comparator
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name one example of a closed-loop system
heating/AC unit, inserting contact lens, or picking up a glass of water
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name one example of an open-loop system
swinging a bat, snapping fingers, toaster
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what are the 2 main differences between closed and open-loop systems?
time difference and closed uses feedback
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a rapid movement is less than ___ms, and is primarily open-loop
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slow movement is more than ___ms, and is primarily closed-loop system
200
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what are the 3 types of feedback info for motor control?
proprioception, exteroception, and exproprioception
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info about body position and movement, relative to the body
proprioception
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info about the external environment, relative to the environment
exteroception
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info about body position and movement, relative to the environment
exproprioception
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what are the 7 sources of feedback info for motor control?
-vision
-audition
-vestibular apparatus
-joint receptors
-golgi tendon organs
-muscle spindles
-cutaneous receptors
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sense of hearing
audition
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located in inner ears; consists of semicircular canals filled with fluid, as well as otolith organs; provides info about head position relative to gravity, and rotary and linear acceleration of the head; contributes to balance and visual tracking
vestibular apparatus
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located in joint capsules; provide info about joint position; most sensitive near limits of range of motion(protects you from overextension or overflexion)
joint receptors
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located at the junction between a muscle and a tendon; provides info about tendon/muscle tension; tendon organs can elicit an inhibitory response(can cause a muscle to relax, more pressure than expected; ex. knee buckles when missing a step)
golgi tendon organs
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provide info about muscle length and rate of change of length(stretch); can elicit an excitatory response
muscle spindles
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figure out knee jerk reflex
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located in the skin; at least 6 different kinds; provide info about pain, pressure, temperature, and vibration
cutaneous receptors
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what device does vision work similarly to?
old fashioned camera
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the film in a camera is analogus to the __________ in the eye
retina
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part of eye that does most of the focusing
cornea
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part of eye that changes size to control the amount of light entering
pupil
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part of eye that fine tunes focusing; changes shape
lens
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center of the retina; 100% cones; is whatever is "in focus"
fovea
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explain the process of light moving through eye(just locations-7)
cornea-->pupil-->lens-->vitreous gel-->retina-->optic nerve-->brain
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why do we not see a blind spot if each of our eyes has one?
both eyes compensate for the other
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what are the 2 visual streams called?
ventral stream and dorsal stream
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visual stream that primarily uses light that strikes the fovea(2% of visual field); high clarity but needs lots of light
ventral
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what "question" does the ventral stream answer?
what is it?
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does the ventral stream use conscious or unconscious processing?
conscious
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which visual stream uses light that strikes the entire retina?
dorsal
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the dorsal stream has _________ light sensitivity, but _________ clarity than the ventral stream
greater; lower
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produced by movement and changing of optic array
optic flow
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optic flow is used to...
detect movement
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does detecting optic flow require attention?
no
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entire optic array changes; experiencing your own movement
global
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only a part of the optic array/visual field changes; experiencing the movement of something else
local
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outward flow; moving forward in environment
expansion
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inward flow; moving backwards in environment
convergence
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what is another name for local expansion?
looming
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moving parallel/side to side
lamellar flow
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no optic flow whatsoever(no movement)
non-flow
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what are the 3 reflexes?
M1(monosynaptic), M2(polysynaptic), and triggered reaction
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how long is the M1 reflex? and what is the most common example of it?
30-50ms; knee-jerk reflex
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how long is the M2 reflex?
50-80ms
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how long is the triggered reaction?
80-120ms
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in which 2 reflexes is the brain involved?
M2 and triggered reaction
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why is the knee-jerk reflex so quick?
the information never goes to the brain, it only goes to the spinal cord
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what are the only 2 receptor senses that Ian Waterman still feels?
temperature and some pain
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removal of sensory info
deafferentation
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what did the deafferentation experiments prove?
sensory info from a limb is not necessary for movement production; chickens can have no brain and still walk around if brainstem is still there
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what is the best example of the existing of motor programs?
mechanically blocking of a limb
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see notes on mechanically blocking limb
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similar to the motor program and is said to control certain types of movements like human locomotion(walking), chewing and even breathing
central program generator(CPG)
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t or f: CPGs are inherited and usually functional at birth
true
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______ are the main reason we don't go through life thinking "left foot, right foot" while walking
CPGs
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shown by moving an infant across the floor so its feet touch the floor, and the infant will move its feet in a stepping motion
stepping reflex
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CPGs reside in the __________
spinal cord
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what does the stepping reflex prove?
that we are born with CPGs for walking
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what are the 2 problems with the original notion of motor programs?
storage problem(how many programs could we even store) and novelty problem(where would the new programs even come from)
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what is the name of the theory that solves the storage and novelty problems?
generalized motor program(GMP) theory
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a motor program that defines a general pattern of movement rather than a specific movement
GMP
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how did GMP solve the storage and novelty problems?
it showed that we only need to store 1 program that can be adapted in different ways
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info must be specified in programming process in order to execute a skilled movement
GMP theory
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what are the 2 forms that the GMP theory comes in?
parameters and invariant features
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modifiable features of a GMP
parameters
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what are the 3 parameters of a GMP?
movement time, movement amplitude, and effector
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phonograph: record
GMP and invariant features
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phonograph: speed control
movement time parameter
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phonograph: volume control
amplitude parameter
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phonograph: speaker switch
effector parameter
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unmodifiable features of a GMP
invariant features
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what are the 3 invariant features of a GMP?
-order of muscle activation
-relative timing(phasing) of muscle activation
-relative force of muscle activation
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GMPs are stored in memory as ______________
invariant features
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an alternative approach to the motor program notion is the _______________
dynamical persepctive
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the _______________ perspective states that regularity in movement patterns(invariance) is not represented in a program, rather it occurs naturally due to the interaction of system components(ex. physical properties of the system)
dynamical
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the dynamical perspective displays the belief that like pendulums, humans can ______________
self-organize
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what do we believe to be the truth about how humans move, according to motor programs and the dynamical perspective?
human movement results from a combination of both
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