1. Define motor learning and provide an activity/sport as an example. List the father of motor learning and discuss the historical growth and development of motor learning. List examples of how and why the government and scientists used motor learning with early research.
2. List and discuss the 3 central factors for consideration when teaching a new skill/activity.
3. Discuss all classifications of motor responses according to movements and how children develop through these stages (postural, transport, manipulation, cephalocaudally, proximodistal, preparation and execution)
4. List and explain Gentile’s-4 stage category system of teaching a skill. Please use the example provided to you in chapter 1 with respect to hitting a baseball. (You may draw a diagram) Discuss why this would apply to most / all activities that require objects that move.
5. Describe each type of skill and provide an example of each. (discrete, serial, continuous, gross/fine motor skills, and closed/open skills).
6. List and describe the 3 stages of learning and what you may notice in each stage while teaching an activity.
7. List and explain the 3 areas most important to you when training and evaluating a youth sport athlete. (ages 6-8)
8. List and discuss the 3 areas most important to you when training and evaluating an advanced or older athlete. (ages 18-21
9. List and discuss the 3 processes by which we learn and provide examples of each. Also explain Pavlov’s theory of learning.
10. performance, what are the five variables we discussed used to evaluate performance?
11. List and explain the 3 criteria used to measure performance.
12. Provide information on intrinsic, and extrinsic knowledge of results (KR), and knowledge of performance (KP), and how they play a role in learning and adjusting to errors.
13. Discuss the differences in direction vs magnitude information for feedback in learning new skills. Also, discuss why films and videos of performances have become useful and popular methods of correcting performance.
14. Using a skill or activity as an example, list and explain the 3 stages of information processing.
15. Discuss the difference between closed and open loop information processing and be able to provide an example of each.
