HEALTH AND PE PRAXIS 5857
EXAMINATION SCRIPT 2026 ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS PERFECT SCORE
⩥ Distributed Practice. Answer: Also known as spaced practice, is a
strategy of learning that makes use of smaller increments of study and
practice over a longer period of time
⩥ Massed Practice. Answer: Utilizing longer study and practice periods
over a short period of time.
⩥ Ballistic Movements. Answer: Muscle contractions that exhibit
maximum velocities and accelerations over a very short period of time.
They exhibit high firing rates, high force production, and very brief
contraction times (i.e. box jump or slam ball)
⩥ Linear Movements. Answer: Movement of an object from one place to
another in a straight or mostly straight line.
⩥ Angular Movements. Answer: Are produced by changing the angle
between the bones of a joint. (i.e. flexion, extension, hyperextension,
abduction, adduction, and circumduction)
,⩥ Open Skills. Answer: An open skill is one that takes place in a
dynamic and changing environment. (i.e. a basketball player trying to
attack the opponents' hoop - many variables)
⩥ Closed Skills. Answer: A closed skill is a skill that takes place in a
structured and static environment. (i.e. that same basketball player
taking a free-throw shot at the opponents' hoop - distraction free and
uninterrupted)
⩥ Affective Skills. Answer: Relate to behaviors and attitudes that
students need to learn in order to be effective in their personal and
professional lives (i.e. feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms,
motivations, and attitudes)
⩥ Interactive Skills. Answer: the general ability to interact with the
external world to accomplish a task
⩥ Agonist Muscle. Answer: Agonist muscles ("prime movers" cause a
movement to occur through their own activation. (i.e. the triceps brachii
contracts, producing a shortening contraction, during the up phase of a
push-up (elbow extension). In the bicep curl which produces flexion at
the elbow, the biceps muscle is the agonist)
⩥ Antagonist Muscle. Answer: The muscles that produce an opposing
joint torque to the agonist muscles. This torque can aid in controlling a
, motion. The opposing torque can slow movement down - especially in
the case of a ballistic movement.
⩥ Fixator Muscle. Answer: A fixator is a stabilizer that acts to eliminate
the unwanted movement of an agonist's, or prime mover's, origin. (I.e.
bicep curl - elbow flexion - by the biceps brachii. The biceps is attached
at two places, proximally and distally. Its distal attachment, the insertion,
is to the radius. One of its proximal attachments, the origin, is to the
scapula. When the biceps contracts it will tend to draw the radius and the
scapula together. The movement of the scapula must be prevented. This
is accomplished by fixators - the trapezius and rhomboids - which work
isometrically to keep the scapula from moving on the torso
⩥ Synergist Muscle. Answer: A synergist is another muscle, besides the
agonist, that assists the movement of a joint indirectly
⩥ Classic Conditioning. Answer: a learning process that occurs when
two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response which is at first elicited by
the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (i.e.
Pavlov's dog)
⩥ Three Stages of Motor Learning. Answer: 1. Cognitive Phase 2.
Associative Phase 3. Autonomous Phase
EXAMINATION SCRIPT 2026 ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS PERFECT SCORE
⩥ Distributed Practice. Answer: Also known as spaced practice, is a
strategy of learning that makes use of smaller increments of study and
practice over a longer period of time
⩥ Massed Practice. Answer: Utilizing longer study and practice periods
over a short period of time.
⩥ Ballistic Movements. Answer: Muscle contractions that exhibit
maximum velocities and accelerations over a very short period of time.
They exhibit high firing rates, high force production, and very brief
contraction times (i.e. box jump or slam ball)
⩥ Linear Movements. Answer: Movement of an object from one place to
another in a straight or mostly straight line.
⩥ Angular Movements. Answer: Are produced by changing the angle
between the bones of a joint. (i.e. flexion, extension, hyperextension,
abduction, adduction, and circumduction)
,⩥ Open Skills. Answer: An open skill is one that takes place in a
dynamic and changing environment. (i.e. a basketball player trying to
attack the opponents' hoop - many variables)
⩥ Closed Skills. Answer: A closed skill is a skill that takes place in a
structured and static environment. (i.e. that same basketball player
taking a free-throw shot at the opponents' hoop - distraction free and
uninterrupted)
⩥ Affective Skills. Answer: Relate to behaviors and attitudes that
students need to learn in order to be effective in their personal and
professional lives (i.e. feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms,
motivations, and attitudes)
⩥ Interactive Skills. Answer: the general ability to interact with the
external world to accomplish a task
⩥ Agonist Muscle. Answer: Agonist muscles ("prime movers" cause a
movement to occur through their own activation. (i.e. the triceps brachii
contracts, producing a shortening contraction, during the up phase of a
push-up (elbow extension). In the bicep curl which produces flexion at
the elbow, the biceps muscle is the agonist)
⩥ Antagonist Muscle. Answer: The muscles that produce an opposing
joint torque to the agonist muscles. This torque can aid in controlling a
, motion. The opposing torque can slow movement down - especially in
the case of a ballistic movement.
⩥ Fixator Muscle. Answer: A fixator is a stabilizer that acts to eliminate
the unwanted movement of an agonist's, or prime mover's, origin. (I.e.
bicep curl - elbow flexion - by the biceps brachii. The biceps is attached
at two places, proximally and distally. Its distal attachment, the insertion,
is to the radius. One of its proximal attachments, the origin, is to the
scapula. When the biceps contracts it will tend to draw the radius and the
scapula together. The movement of the scapula must be prevented. This
is accomplished by fixators - the trapezius and rhomboids - which work
isometrically to keep the scapula from moving on the torso
⩥ Synergist Muscle. Answer: A synergist is another muscle, besides the
agonist, that assists the movement of a joint indirectly
⩥ Classic Conditioning. Answer: a learning process that occurs when
two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response which is at first elicited by
the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (i.e.
Pavlov's dog)
⩥ Three Stages of Motor Learning. Answer: 1. Cognitive Phase 2.
Associative Phase 3. Autonomous Phase
