01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motor Learning, Motor Skill
17 Oct 2018
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Motor skills require body, head or limb movement to achieve its goal. Skills: tasks or activities that have specific goals to achieve (action goals) Actions: term often used as synonymous with term motor skills. Movements: behavioral characteristics of a specific limb or a combo of limbs. People initially learn to achieve action goals. People use a variety of movement characteristics to achieve the same action goal. People use different types of measures to evaluate actions and movements. Baseball swings can be different, you modify to your own body. Provides basis for identifying similarities/differences among skills. Provides basis for developing principles related to performing and learning motor skills. Based on one common skill characteristic that identifies similarities among skills. Each represent extreme ends of a continuum. One dimensional system 1: size of primary musculature required. Gross: require use of large muscularute fine : small muscles ( hand eye coordination) Specificity of where movements of a skill begin or end.
