Motor Learning Chapter 12

1. Cognitive 2. Associative 3. Autonomous

-first stage of learning -focuses on cognitively oriented problems -many mistakes and errors

-Intermediate - person has learned to associate cues from the env with required movements -works to refine performance to be more consistent -Important to stress correct fundamentals

-Expert -Do not consciously think about performing the skill

-Develop a movement coordination pattern for successful performance -Learn to discriminate regulatory & non regulatory conditions

-Increased consistency -Adapt movement patterns to specific demands of any performance situation

-The Goal of Gentiles 2nd stage in CLOSED SKILLS -refine movement patterns so they are produced correctly and consistently from trial to trial

-OPEN SKILLS -modify movement pattern according to environmental context characteristics.

-Negative accelerated curve

Large amount of improvement during early practice, and smaller improvement rates characterized further practice. -Performance is determined by experience -applies only to motor skills

common initial strategy of beginning learners to control the many degrees of freedom associated with the coordination demands of a motor skill in order to achieve the action goal; the person holds some joints rigid while performing the skill

Relaience on sensory info

high level of skill performance that characterized a person at the extremem opposite end of a beginner -deliberate practice for a minimum of ten years -select meaningful information in a short amount of time.

shifts in brain region activation