Motor Learning Chapter 7 Performance of complex movements

Experimental Approach

• although an individual might have proper abilities for novice performance, this often is not the proper pattern of abilities required for expert performance
• an outdated view, held that all motor performances are based on a single ability; person strong in this should be good at all motor tasks; research has shown that this is wrong
• the process of using people's abilities to estimate their probable success in various jobs or sports
• understand behavior emphasizing common principles among people and experiments

How would the performance scores for this pair of tasks most likely correlate?

a stork stand and a diver's stand

• High Positive Coorilation

• Low Positive Coorilation

Differential Approach

• ensures that the learning principles he or she is using are appropriate for the skill being taught; give the learner more assistance with underlying features of the skill important for movement control; choose an individual for advanced training based on the match of abilities of the person involved in the task
• low, suggesting that there are many abilities, which are very specific to particular tasks
• although an individual might have proper abilities for novice performance, this often is not the proper pattern of abilities required for expert performance
• understand behavior by focusing on individual differences and abilities

Ability

• the process of using people's abilities to estimate their probable success in various jobs or sports
• people who are good at novice performance may not be good at expert performance and vice versa; those who are not good early in life may not be given the opportunity to improve their abilities
• underlies particular skills; largely inherited and is NOT modifiable by practice
• understanding the abilities that underlie the criterion task; estimating the strength of these abilities in applicants as indications of their future capabilities in the criterion task; estimating the potential skill on the criterion task based on present info about the applicants

Prediction

• an outdated view, held that all motor performances are based on a single ability; person strong in this should be good at all motor tasks; research has shown that this is wrong
• understand behavior by focusing on individual differences and abilities
• the process of using people's abilities to estimate their probable success in various jobs or sports
• not very effective; underlying abilities in motor performances have not been studied systematically and are not well understood; number of underlying abilities is large requiring many abilities to be measured; pattern of relevant abilities shifts with practice making prediction of expert performance difficult

Individual Differences

• not very effective; underlying abilities in motor performances have not been studied systematically and are not well understood; number of underlying abilities is large requiring many abilities to be measured; pattern of relevant abilities shifts with practice making prediction of expert performance difficult
• tend to be stable from attempt to attempt; endure across time; need more than one measurement
• low, suggesting that there are many abilities, which are very specific to particular tasks
• the process of using people's abilities to estimate their probable success in various jobs or sports

General Motor Ability Hypothesis

• tend to be stable from attempt to attempt; endure across time; need more than one measurement
• an outdated view, held that all motor performances are based on a single ability; person strong in this should be good at all motor tasks; research has shown that this is wrong
• ensures that the learning principles he or she is using are appropriate for the skill being taught; give the learner more assistance with underlying features of the skill important for movement control; choose an individual for advanced training based on the match of abilities of the person involved in the task
• understand behavior by focusing on individual differences and abilities

Correlations Among Various Skills

• an outdated view, held that all motor performances are based on a single ability; person strong in this should be good at all motor tasks; research has shown that this is wrong
• ensures that the learning principles he or she is using are appropriate for the skill being taught; give the learner more assistance with underlying features of the skill important for movement control; choose an individual for advanced training based on the match of abilities of the person involved in the task
• people who are good at novice performance may not be good at expert performance and vice versa; those who are not good early in life may not be given the opportunity to improve their abilities
• low, suggesting that there are many abilities, which are very specific to particular tasks

Skill Classification

• although an individual might have proper abilities for novice performance, this often is not the proper pattern of abilities required for expert performance
• understanding the abilities that underlie the criterion task; estimating the strength of these abilities in applicants as indications of their future capabilities in the criterion task; estimating the potential skill on the criterion task based on present info about the applicants
• ensures that the learning principles he or she is using are appropriate for the skill being taught; give the learner more assistance with underlying features of the skill important for movement control; choose an individual for advanced training based on the match of abilities of the person involved in the task
• understand behavior emphasizing common principles among people and experiments

Prediction

• understanding the abilities that underlie the criterion task; estimating the strength of these abilities in applicants as indications of their future capabilities in the criterion task; estimating the potential skill on the criterion task based on present info about the applicants
• understand behavior emphasizing common principles among people and experiments
• ensures that the learning principles he or she is using are appropriate for the skill being taught; give the learner more assistance with underlying features of the skill important for movement control; choose an individual for advanced training based on the match of abilities of the person involved in the task
• low, suggesting that there are many abilities, which are very specific to particular tasks