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Motor Learning and Control: From Theory to Practice

William Edwards

Chapter 2

What Is a Skill? - all with Video Answers

Educators

Section 1

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

01:41

Problem 1

Motor skills are comprised of elements from
a. the motor domain of skill only.
b. both the perceptual and motor domains of skill.
c. all three domains of skill.
d. all three domains of skill equally.

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Emily Himsel
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Problem 2

According to Guthrie's definition, motor skills result in all but which one of the following?
a. They maximize certainty of goalattainment.
b. They minimize cognitive effort.
c. They minimize energy expenditure.
d. They minimize movement time.

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Problem 3

The capacity to achieve the same skill goal using different movements is termed
a. motor consistency.
b. motor equivalence.
c. motor variability.
d. motor modifiability.

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01:53

Problem 4

What term is used to describe the behavioral characteristics of a person's limbs, head, and other bodily segments?
a. Abilities
b. Actions
c. Movements
d. Responses

Gabriella Bussanich
Gabriella Bussanich
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03:32

Problem 5

Which of the following categories of motor skills is based upon classification according to the predictability of the beginning and ending of action?
a. Discrete skills
b. Closed skills
c. Self-paced skills
d. Open skills

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Sharon Edamala
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05:43

Problem 6

For the skill of driving an automobile on a busy city street during rush hour, the regulatory conditions would most likely be which of the following?
a. Stable with no intertrial variability
b. Stable with intertrial variability
c. In motion with no intertrial variability
d. In motion with intertrial variability

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Matthias Wuest
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Problem 7

Deciding on which play to run in a football game is an example of the $\qquad$ domain of skill.

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00:44

Problem 8

The capacity to change a movement once an action has begun is termed $\qquad$.

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Hunza Gilgit
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01:45

Problem 9

Individual genetic traits that underlie motor skills are called $\qquad$

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Eric Goldman
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Problem 10

The number of ways in which a unit of movement analysis may independently vary is termed $\qquad$.

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Problem 11

If a motor skill were classified based upon the stability of the performance environment, then roller-skating in a crowded skating rink would be classified as $a(n)$ $\qquad$ skill.

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Problem 12

Walking up a flight of familiar stairs daily carrying an armful of schoolbooks would be classified in which category of Gentile's taxonomy?

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