Exam 9: Motor Behavior

Fluid intelligence is a measure of the state of the brain, because it is a measure of an individual's ability to make new and unique connections.

Although specific exercises cannot stop the progression of Parkinson disease, improving muscle strength through physical activity and exercise can help an individual feel more confident and capable in his/her movements.

When individuals move information about a movement learned during practice from short-term to long-term memory store, the process is called:

This period marks a transition from refining fundamental movement abilities to the establishment of transitional movement skills to simple games and athletic skills.

Inexperienced individuals perform better during both practice and competition if the summary knowledge of results is:

The concept of bioelectricity and how it controls muscle movement was formulated by:

As practice organization becomes more complex and challenging, it leads to better practice performance but inferior retention performance.

As the complexity of the response decreases, the reaction time of the individual also decreases.

Most of the prominent information in motor development came from observing the activities of infants and their changes in reflexes, movements, and feeding behaviors on a day-to-day basis.

Moving information from long-term memory to short-term memory signifies information moving from the working memory to the permanent memory.

Motor learning is the study of how individuals learn skilled movements from practice or experience.

Older adults respond to a greater extent than younger adults to the intervention and practice of motor skills.

An indirect measurement of how long it takes for an individual to process the information involved in making a decision and to respond is referred to as reaction time.

In the area of motor development, longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of individuals or groups of individuals are less prevalent than in the areas of motor learning and motor control.

Motor control is the study of the neurologic, physiologic, and behavioral aspects of movement and how our brain and spinal cord plan and perform those movements.

Motor behavior is the understanding of how the body develops, controls, and learns movement skills that individuals use in physical activity, exercise, sport, and athletic competition.

Decreases in performance commonly begin to occur in cardiorespiratory function, muscular function, and psychomotor function at around __________ years of age.

__________ is defined as the difficulty of the motor problem an individual must resolve to successfully complete a motor task relative to the performance abilities of the individual performing the task.

Until an individual is experienced at a movement task or skill, high levels of contextual interference may be detrimental to the efficient learning of the skill.

As task difficulty increases, the quality of game performance also increases.