11PE Motor Learning - Quick Quiz

When sub-routines are combined, they create a ...

• Motor program

• Motor reflex

• Closed motor skill

• Discrete skill

Distributed practice is:

• implemented in ensure task representation occurs

• where the athlete is given minimal time for feedback between practice attempts

• similar to part practice

• when a skill is practiced with periods of rest that are equal to or longer than periods spent training

The dynamic systems approach suggests that motor skills are learnt and carried out dynamically in response to certain variables known as constraints. The three types of constraints include:

• task constraints, cognitive constraints, individual constraints

• self-organisation constraints, environmental constraints, learner constraints

• cognitive constraints, associative constraints, autonomous constraints

• individual constraints, task constraints, environmental constraints

A motor skills is:

• the same as a motor reflex

• an involuntary movement

• a voluntary movement

• a complex movement

Which of the following motor skills is the most closed?

• practicing shooting hoops against a single defender in basketball

• running in a 100 metre relay race

• taking a free kick in a soccer match

• returning a serve in a tennis final

At which stage of the information processing model does parallel processing take place?

• Stimulus identification

• Stimulus execution

• Response selection

• Response execution

Skipping with a skipping rope is a …

• continuous motor skill

• discrete motor skill

• serial motor skill

• open motor skill

The cognitive systems approach involves:

• input of information to the brain, processing of information followed by execution of movement

• close alignment with Fitts and Posner’s stages of learning

• a more traditional approach

• all of the above

Motor learning is:

• a process of acquiring and refining skills

• the stages of learning

• a process to provide feedback

• the ability of an individual to perform skills in unpredictable environments

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of motor skill learning?

• Consistency

• Improvement

• Stability

• Variability