Motor Learning Review

As a result of a supraspinatus impingement syndrome, Mrs. J is unable to lift her arm overhead without pain. You plan to design an exercise program consisting of both discrete and serial tasks. You do not want to include continuous tasks at this time. Which of the following should not be included?

• ROM exercises using a cloth to wipe down the wall

• Active reaching exercises to place small objects in a cabinet

• Active assisted stretching by lifting a cane overhead in supine

• Warming up on the upper extremity (UE) ergometer (UE cycling)

Your patient is performing pelvic tilt exercises for the first time and needs verbal and tactile cues (feedback) to perform the exercises correctly. This represents which stage of motor learning?

• Cognitive

• Contemplative

• Associative

• Autonomous

You are helping a patient learn a motor skill. You set up several variations of the same task (Walking on several types of surfaces). You have the patient perform one variation of the task and have him identify his own errors after the first repetition (or point out errors to him after the first repetition). Next, allow him to repeat the same variation of the task two more times before moving on to another variation of the task. What term best describes this type of practice?

• Blocked

• Random-blocked

• Random

• Augmented

Helping a patient acquire the ability to shift his weight from side to side in a standing position by means of manual guidance by the therapist is called:

• Summary feedback

• Delayed feedback

• Concurrent feedback

• Instantaneous postresponse feedback

For which of the following tasks will teaching components (parts) of the motor task be most effective?

• Swinging a golf club

• Riding a stationary bicycle

• Grasping an object

• Performing a stand-pivot transfer from bed to wheelchair

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

As a therapist, you can be relatively confident that motor learning has taken place when your patient demonstrates which of the following?

• Consecutive repetitions of a task without error during the treatment session

• Decreased need for manual guidance during the treatment sessions

• The ability to perform a slight variation of the task in a new context during the treatment sesssion

• Increased speed demonstrated when carrying out the task