Motor Development Chapter 1 QUiz

What are the three components of the situational profile?

• The learner, the environment and the task

• The skill, the learner and the sport

• The environment, the learner and the trainer

• None of the above

The study of the processes involved in acquiring and refining motor skills is known as...

• Motor control

• Skills classification

• Motor learning

• Open skills

A relatively permanent change in a person's capability to execute a motor skill as a result of practice or experience is known as...

• Performance

• Skills

• Motor Development

• Learning

The precision of a movement can be classified as...

• Requiring fine motor skills versus gross motor skills

• Requiring smaller musculature versus requiring multi-limb movements

• Requiring object manipulation versus not requiring object manipulation

• None of the above are true

Serial skills are defined as

• Skills with clearly defined beginning and end points

• Skills with arbitrary beginning and end points

• A collection or sequence of discrete skills

• Skills that continue indefinitely

___________________ are those performed in stable, predictable environments.

True or False. Genetic traits play no role in an individual's abilities to perform a skill

• True

• False

Which of the following is not an individual difference that could result in a person's uniqueness?

• Height/Body Type

• Learning Style

• Cultural Background

• All of the above

________________________________ are skills performed in unpredictable, ever-changing environments.

Would doing a bench press in the gym be considered a closed skill or an open skill?

• Closed Skill

• Open Skill

• Both an open and closed skill

• Somewhere between an open and closed skill