After completing this chapter you should be able to:
- Understand how we select a movement.
- Understand the Degrees of Freedom problem and how that is important to theory.
- Compare the Efficiency Theories, Synergy Theories and the Mass Spring Model. Try to decide which is best supported.
- Discuss whether movement trajectories are planned and how different theories deal with this issue.
- Understand how movements are sequenced.
- Understand the concept of a motor program and the various aspects of motor programming: Motor Program theories by Keele and Posner and Hierarchical Theories.
- Understand the role of feedback in motor programming and its importance to various theories.
- Understand the importance of integrating perceptual information into motor controls. Describe how vision and propioception are used. How does perceptual feedback enter into the process?
- Understand how motor skills are learned.
- Describe the three properties of motor skill learning: Generalization, Long Term Retention, and Automaticity
- Discuss the Two Approaches to Motor Skill Learning: Generalized Motor Program and Multiple Processes
- Discuss what Schmidt’s schema theory has to say about generalizing of motor skills.
- Explain the difference between learning and performance in motor skills.
- Discuss why the author feels movements are specified in terms of endpoints rather than directions. What neurophysiological findings support this view?
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