Essay Example For High School Students about Motor Learning and Development

consisting of the last two trimesters of pregnancy

occurs following birth and lasts only two weeks

the mountain of motor development period in which infants start interacting with the environment by engaging in phylogenetic motor behaviors such as sitting up, standing, crawling, and walking

basic movements such as throwing, catching, hopping, and jumping that form a base for more complex sport-specific movement patterns

refinement of fundamental motor patterns to movements specific for sports or other movement forms from Clark's mountain of motor development

the period at the peak of the mountain of motor development in which a learner has acquired a high level of skill proficiency; this period does not separate between levels of performance, such as college or professional athletes

a period from Clark's mountain of motor development; an adaptation to the environment as a result of an injury or due to declines results from aging

the learner's main goals is to understand the basic components of the motor skill movement pattern

the goals of the task has shifted to refining the movement as opposed to learning how to solve the movement problem

the third and final stage in Fitts and Posner's learning model, in which the performer is at the highest level of motor skill proficiency

the number of functional units that are required to solve a movement problem; can be thought of as the number of possible solutions to a performance task

structures that occur when the degrees of freedom become incorporated into larger functional units of action to preserve a certain posture or movement

Gentile's first stage of learning, similar to Fitts and Posner's cognitive stage of learning; during this stage the learner has two main goals: to understand the movement coordination required to perform the movement task and to determine the regulatory and non regulatory conditions of the movement

those conditions that provide relevant information for a motor skill

distract the learner from important relevant cues, preventing the learner from performing skillfully or even accomplishing the goal at all