KINE 2P05 Study Guide - Final Guide: Motor Learning, Laparoscopy
19 Dec 2016
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Lecture 7 Review
Lecture 7 – Intro to Motor Learning
• What comprises motor learning?
o Motor Learning is a set of processes associated with practice or
experience leading to relatively permanent gains in the capability for
skilled performance
▪ Learning results from practice or experience
▪ Learning requires relatively permanent changes
▪ Learning affects capability
▪ Learning is not directly observable, but it’s products are
• How is learning studied?
o Record how performance changes over time
o Plot the data on a graph
o Describe the shape of the graph
• Performance Curves
o Negatively Accelerated Curve – rapid initial improvements followed by
decreasing gains in improvement from practice (e.g. guitar hero)
o Positively Accelerated Curve – little improvement initially, followed by
rapid improvement (e.g. snowboarding)
o Limitations of performance Curves
▪ Performance curve ≠ learning curve
▪ Do not show individual differences
• Between participants
• Within participants
▪ Ceiling and floor effects
• Ceiling effect – when a performance variable can go no
higher (ex. 100% on a test)
• Floor effect – when a performance variable can go no lower
(ex. reaction time, error scores)
• Practice vs. Performance
o Practice can have two effects on performance
▪ Permanent effects due to learning
• Allows individual to perform a skill in the future
▪ Transient effects
• Positive Effects
o Energized performance
o Motivation, Self-Efficacy
• Negative Effects
o Lethargic performance
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