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ES 4813 –Applied Motor Learning Quiz #10 1.A test can be _____. a. valid but not reliable b. reliable but not valid

2. EMG ____. a. is the acronym for electromyography. b. measures the electrical activity of a muscle. c. is used to measure reaction time. d. All the above are true.

3. Hick’s law states that reaction time will increase as the _____. a. arousal level of the individual increases b. a number of stimulus-response pairs increases c. movement complexity increases

4. _____ is the type of measurement error that provides both magnitude and direction. a. constant error b. absolute error c. variable error

Quiz #11

1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of improvements in motor learning? a. Persistent improvement over time b. Increased variability c. Stability of performance

2. A _________ is the name given to the leveling out of performance increases? a. negative transfer b. negatively accelerated curve c. performance plateau

3. The “Power Law of Practice” is most closely associated with which type of performance curve? a. negatively accelerating b. positively accelerating c. linear d. Sigmoid

4. Which term describes a situation when attempted learning of an overly difficult skill results in little improvement? a. Floor effect b. Ceiling effect c. Stroop effect

Quiz # 12

1. _____ is the gain or loss of a person’s proficiency on one task as a result of previous experience. a. Transfer of learning b. Motor program c. Motivation

2. When a motor skill learned by one limb is transferred to the contralateral limb, it is referred to as _____. a. unimanual transfer b. unilateral transfer

c. bilimbi transfer d. bilateral transfer

3. When a batter in softball learns (or associates) that if she swings earlier she will more likely hit to the left side of the field for the aright handed batter, then she would be in the _____ stage of learning. a. verbal cognitive b. associative c. autonomic

4. If a golfer asks his instructor “What is the best way to hold the club for a putt?” He is likely in the _____ stage of learning. a. verbal cognitive b. associative c. autonomic

Quiz #13

1. If you are asked to demonstrate how to perform a bicep curl, you base your demonstration on the knowledge that is stored in long-term memory in the _____. a. episodic memory system. b. semantic memory system. c. procedural memory system. d. muscle memory system.

2. What name is given to the memory of personally experienced events and the time they occurred? a. Episodic b. Procedural c. Semantic

3. The three stages of information processing between input and output include all of the following EXCEPT __ a. stimulus identification. b. response selection. c. response programming. d. response interpretation

4. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the double stimulation paradigm (DSP)? a. Reaction time to the second stimulus increases (worse performance) as the interstimulus interval increases in the DSP. b. Reaction time to the second stimulus decreases (better performance) as the interstimulus interval increases in the DSP

Quiz #14 1. Which term describes the activation level of the emotional, mental, and physiological systems? a. arousal b. anxiety. c. attention

2. Concerning attention, _____ is used when people attend to cues or information in the environment. a. external focus b. internal focus c. narrow focus d. broad focus

3. Which of the following best describes the inverted-U principle? a. High arousal is best for experts.

b. Too much or too little arousal is detrimental to performance. c. There can never be too little arousal. 4. If you were teaching a unilateral leg extension exercise, how would you have your client direct their attention? a. broad and internal b. broad and external c. narrow and internal d. narrow and external...