BHK Motor Learning and Control

Question 1

Which stage of Fitts and Posner's model of motor learning is characterized by reliance on verbal-cognitive processes and high attentional demands?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive stage

Answer

The cognitive stage is the first stage where learners must consciously think through each component of the skill, requiring high attention and producing many errors.

Question 2

Augmented feedback that is provided AFTER the movement is completed is classified as:

Accepted Answer

Terminal feedback

Answer

Terminal (or post-response) augmented feedback is delivered after movement completion and includes knowledge of results (KR) and knowledge of performance (KP).

Question 3

The 'degrees of freedom problem' in motor control, as described by Bernstein, refers to:

Accepted Answer

The challenge of coordinating the many redundant movement options of the musculoskeletal system

Answer

Bernstein identified that the nervous system must constrain the enormous number of possible joint angle combinations (degrees of freedom) to produce coordinated movement.

Question 4

Variable practice, compared to constant practice, generally leads to:

Accepted Answer

Poorer immediate performance but better retention and transfer to novel tasks

Answer

Variable practice conditions challenge the learner more during acquisition but produce superior long-term retention and transfer to new variations of the skill.

Question 5

Schema theory (Schmidt, 1975) proposes that motor programs are generalized and that specific movement parameters are determined by:

Accepted Answer

Recall schema (motor production) and recognition schema (sensory evaluation)

Answer

Schema theory holds that experience builds recall schemas for movement production and recognition schemas for evaluating expected sensory consequences.

BHK - Bachelor of Kinesiology Practice Test

BHK - Bachelor of Kinesiology Practice Test

BHK Motor Learning and Control