Module 3 - Theories of Motor Learning

Define Motor Learning

A set of processes associated with practice or experience leading to relatively permanent changes in the capability for producing skilled action

Define recovery of function

Re-acquisition of movement skills list through injury

What are the 4 important components of motor learning?

Process of acquiring capability for skilled action

Results from experience or practice

Cannot be measured directly - instead is inferred from behavior

Produces relatively permanent change in behavior

True or false: Changes in motor performance that result from practice reflect motor learning

False; performance must be retained

Define attention

Cognitive process by which people can detect, select, sustain, or shift awareness among a myriad of relevant information and stimuli

What is an internal focus of attention

Focus on the movement itself

What is an external focus of attention

Focus on the movement outcomes

What is exogenous attention?

Externally driven attention from bottom up control (sounds or fast-moving or colorful objects)

What is endogenous attention?

Internally generated, top-down control and is goal oriented

What are the types of nondeclarative memory?

Nonassociative learning, associative learning, procedural learning

What is nonassociative learning?

Occurs when given a single stimulus repeatedly