APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Motor Skill, Error Detection And Correction, Motor Learning
4 Apr 2016
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Posner: identify and describe several diferent methods to assess performance and learning, understand the signiicance of retention and transfer tests, identify and describe the motor memory process. Instead we should be saying practice make better". A set of internal processes associated with practice or experience that results in relatively permanent change in the capability for skill . A change in the capability of a perform to perform a skills that must be inferred from a relatively permanent improvement in performance as a result of practice or experiences . Is the term movement synonymous with motor skill: no, the term movements refers to the behavioural characteristics of the head, body, and/or speciic limb or combination of limbs, movements are the component parts of motor skills. Discrete motor skills: clearly deined beginning and end locations. Continuous motor skills: arbitrary beginning and end locations. Serial motor skills: involve a series of discrete skills.
