KINE 2P05 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: University Of Manchester, Binary Logarithm

• School: Brock University
• Department: Physical Education and Kinesiology
• Course: KINE 2P05
• Professor: Allan Adkin

Document Summary

In many movement situations, the time it takes to make rapid movements varies with the difficulty of the task. For example, if the movement requires accuracy, usually you can move accurately but at the expense of moving more slowly whereas if the movement requires speed, you can move quickly but at the expense of being less accurate. One way to look at this is to examine the relationship between rapid arm movements and the difficulty of the task. This relationship is expressed formally as fitts" law, in which task difficulty is expressed in terms of the distance to move and the accuracy demands at the movement endpoints. Fitts" law has been shown to generalize to a variety of physical activity situations where speed and accuracy play important roles. The purpose of the lab is to assess how movement time is affected by reciprocal tapping tasks that differ in difficulty.