Motor Learning Chapter 9 Flashcards
the Specificity of learning principle states that
-Best learning experiences are those that most approximate the movement components and environmental conditions of the target skill
Performance is
about trying to do your best at a task
Learning is
practicing and experimenting with what works and betting comfortable with the movement
What are the benefits of proper practice?
- Capability to perform the skill on future demand
- Improve perceptual skills
- reduces demands on attention. (as skill gets more automatic, it needs less attention)
- reduces effector competition (once we’ve learned skill, muscles that shouldn’t be activated will no longer be competing with muscles that should be (aka noise)
- Improves motor programs & error detection
What are Fitt’s stages of learning
- Verbal Cognitive stage
- Fixation stage
- Autonomous stage
What are some characteristics of fitt’s stage 1. Verbal cognitive stage of learning?
- a lot of time spent thinking
- attentional demanding
- understanding the fundamentals of movement pattern
- need verbal guidance
- large gains
What are some charachteristics of Fitt’s stage 2. Fixation stage?
- solved the major cognitive problem
- focus on refining the skill
- building a motor program
- monitor feedback
what are some characteristics of fitt’s stage 3. autonomous stage of learning?
- Little or no attention on skill
- longer motor programs
- higher order cognition
- increased perceptual anticipation
What are Bernstein’s stages?
- Benstein’s stage 1, reduce degrees of freedom
- Bernstein’s stage 2: release degrees of freedom
- Bernstein’s stage 3: Exploit passive dynamics
what are some of the characteristics of Bernstein’s Stage 1: Reduce Degrees of Freedom
- Freezing degrees of freedom
- Conscious control (make movement happen)
- Produce rudimentary aspects of the movement ( what are fundamental thinks trying to produce here?)
what are some of the characteristics of “Bernstein’s Stage 2: Release Degrees of Freedom”
- release additional degrees of freedom
- allows for greater flexibility
- produces more complex movements
What are some characteristics of “Bernstein’s Stage 3: Exploit Passive Dynamics”
- Exploit principles of energy and motion
- maximize skill’s effectiveness
- maximize skill efficiency
Limitations of Fitt’s and Bernsteins stages include:
- Niether was meant to describe learning as a series of discrete, nonlinear, and unidirectional stages
- Fitt’s considered performance change to be regressive as well as progressive
- Task difference also play an important role in the stage views of both Fitts and Bernstein.
What are the characteristics of forgetting?
- longer term retention depends on nature of the task
- -discrete tasks are forgotten relatively quickly
- -continuous tasks are trained well over longer period’s of no practice
- -the amount of practice will influence a learners retention
What is the “warm up decrement?”
Warm up decrement refers to a specific type of retention DEFICIT due to the loss of an activity SET
Transfer of learning refers to a
gain or loss of a person’s proficiency on one task as a result of previous experience
movement elements are
elements that deal with the fundamental patterns of a movement
Perceptual elements are
aspects that deal with the environmental information
strategic and conceptual elements
!Aspects that deal with the rules, principles, or strategies
Part practice is
• Initial rehearsal of complex skills
Fractionalization is
parts of a complex skill practice separately
Segmentation is when
- initial part of a skill practiced
- then a second part is added until the entire target skill is practiced
Simplification is when
difficulty of the target skill is reduced in some manner
what’s “near transfer”
transfer of learning from one task or setting to another that is very similar