Motor Learning

APA Formatting

Graduate level writing

6 or more pages plus Title and reference page.

9 or more sources that are scholarly and illustrate a high degree of research and technical expertise.

Along with a PowerPoint, you must submit a six-page executive summary of your presentation, with at least nine scholarly APA references and documentation. The reference page is in addition to the six-page executive summary.

The length of the executive summary assignment should be 6 pages plus title and reference page.

Develop a compressive power point presentation where you demonstrate how you would apply two of the following concepts from the field of Motor Learning to the teaching of a movement skill. You must include picture demonstration with descriptive in your wording.

• Your PowerPoint must include an introduction of your skill choice and main teaching objectives.
• Demonstration of how you apply the Motor Learning concepts.

Choose two of the following topics:

• Feedback for a specific skill
  • Knowledge of Results
  • Knowledge of Performance
  • Proprioception
• Freezing the degrees of freedom – take one skill and show us how you would teach it to a novice. Show which joints are frozen and why and then the order of release.
• General Motor Program – choose one GMP and show it in action during two different motor skills. How do the following parameters change:
  • Muscles used (will be very similar)
  • Order of activation of muscles and de-activation
  • Force of muscle contraction
  • Duration of muscle contraction
• Practice session for:
  • Specific population
  • Specific motor skill
  • Transfer
• Information Processing:

• Skill display and filter issues
• Short-term memory processes
• Long-term memory and retrieval

• Reinforcement/motivation
  • Key internal reinforcers
  • Key external reinforcers
  • Advantages vs disadvantages of negative reinforcement and punishment