Kinesthesis In Relation To The Learning Of Selected Motor Skills

Author : Margaret Robb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Skill Training for the Production of a Memorized Movement Pattern written by Margaret Robb and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many skilled tasks require execution of a movement pattern directed toward a specific goal. However the individual performing the movement lacks information about how well he is doing until the movement pattern is completed; instantaneous error information is not available along the way. Although this kind of task has not frequently been studied in the laboratory, it is very common in practical situations. A golfer perfecting his swing, a pilot executing a procedural turn under VFR conditions, and an astronaut performing extra-vehicular maneuvers are typical examples. The question to be attacked in this report concerns the evaluation of several possible procedures for training human operators in the execution of this class of movement. Although some tasks of this sort are terminal control problems that are effectively path independent, in the examples cited there is a desirable temporal pattern for the entire movement that will converge on the terminal state relatively optimally. In the case of the movement to be studied here, it was assumed that such a desired temporal pattern did indeed exist and that the quality of performance could be measured by noting deviations from that desired pattern. The perspective of this research assumes that man may be regarded as an information processing system. He accepts information via his sensory organs; it is then suitably transformed by a central decision-making system to be translated into overt motor performance by a response or output system. Sensory input information may arrive from two sources. The environment can provide both command information; that is, information about the desired course of action; and feedback, information about the state of the system output at any point in time. This output information may be fed back via vision, audition, touch, proprioception, etc. If an operator is to learn, that is, to modify his behavior on the basis of previous stimulation, feedback about the state of the system output with respect to some desired goal is virtually essential. Although many other variables may contribute to the efficiency of training, without feedback, or knowledge of results, there can be no learning. This study examines the efficacy of several kinds of feedback information administered during a training period for improving performance at the task of generating a response pattern essentially from memory. After a brief review of definitions and concepts concerned with the regulation of feedback in Chapter 2, the subsequent chapters present the method, the results, and the discussion of the research that was undertaken."--Introduction