Experiencing Motor Learning: From Theory to Application
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 92
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Experiencing Motor Learning: From Theory to Application is a practical book in which students experiment with various motor learning principles, generating their own data and conclusions. This book includes 20 lab activities that encourage students to be active participants in their knowledge development. Each unit of lab activities is supported by brief synopses of pertinent literature, directing students to the most relevant resources for more exhaustive explanations of motor learning theory. What results in a condensed lab manual suitable for undergraduate motor learning courses. Units span classical motor learning theory, including information processing theory, attention and sensory contributions to performance, principles of speed and accuracy, practice schedules, external focus of attention, enhanced expectancies, and autonomy support.
I. Theory
a. Information Processing
i. Lab 1: Parallel Versus Serial Processing
ii. Lab 2: Reaction Time
b. Attention and Sensory Contributions to Performance
i. Lab 3: Task Interference
ii. Lab 4: Psychological Refractory Period
c. Principles of Speed and Accuracy
i. Lab 5: Fitts’ Law
ii. Lab 6: Bimanual Tasks
iii. Lab 7: Timing Tasks
d. Practice
i. Lab 8: Variable Versus Constant Practice
ii. Lab 9: Blocked Versus Random Practice
II. Application: OPTIMAL Theory
a. External Focus of Attention
i. Lab 10: Maximal Force Production
ii. Lab 11: Maximal Accuracy Generation
iii. Lab 12: Ball Toss Experiment with External Focus
iv. Lab 13: Near Transfer: Ball Toss Experiment Revisited
b. Enhanced Expectancies
i. Lab 14: Positive Versus Negative Feedback
ii. Lab 15: Self-Modeling for Novel Task Learning
iii. Lab 16: Beanbag Toss for Accuracy
iv. Lab 17: Applying Enhanced Expectancies to Hopscotch
c. Autonomy Support
i. Lab 18: Applying Autonomy Support to Reaction Time
ii. Lab 19: Self-Requested Feedback
iii. Lab 20: Balance and Autonomy Support
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