HG&D: MOTOR CONTROL EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
3 levels for analyzing movement - action
Movement
Neuromotor
Action level - examines the behavioral outcome (achieved/not achieved) with relation to the
environment
Movement level - analyzes movements and strategies used to perform functional tasks (how does
the person move?)
Neuromotor level - the interaction and integrity of multiple body systems that contribute to
movement (such as sensation, perception, motor coordination, strength)
What makes up an individual? - cognition
Action
Perception
3 fundamental types of movement (under individual: action) - postural (brain stem)
Ambulatory (brain stem and spinal region)
Volitional activity (cerebral cortex)
Factors within the individual that constrain movement - goal oriented action
Perception
Cognition
Perception - the integration of sensory impressions into psychologically meaningful information
Provides info about: state of body, environmental issues critical for regulation of movement
, Cognition - attention, motivation, emotional aspects of motor control that underlie the
establishment of intent or goals
Dual task research emerging
Attention continuum - attentional demand of the activity
Static postural control vs. Negotiating an obstacle course
Tug test (can add cognitive or physical challenge)
Components of task - mobility
Stability
Manipulation
Motor skill - an action or task that has a goal to achieve
Skill acquisition is dependent on - practice
Experience
Skilled movements are - consistent
Fluid
Precise (timing)
Efficient
Adaptable
Discrete motor skills - recognizable beginning and end points defined by the task itself
Serial motor skills - discrete or individual skills put in series
Continuous skills - the task end point is not an inherent characteristic of the task, but decided
arbitrarily by the performer
Closed motor skills - fixed habitual patterns of movement
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
3 levels for analyzing movement - action
Movement
Neuromotor
Action level - examines the behavioral outcome (achieved/not achieved) with relation to the
environment
Movement level - analyzes movements and strategies used to perform functional tasks (how does
the person move?)
Neuromotor level - the interaction and integrity of multiple body systems that contribute to
movement (such as sensation, perception, motor coordination, strength)
What makes up an individual? - cognition
Action
Perception
3 fundamental types of movement (under individual: action) - postural (brain stem)
Ambulatory (brain stem and spinal region)
Volitional activity (cerebral cortex)
Factors within the individual that constrain movement - goal oriented action
Perception
Cognition
Perception - the integration of sensory impressions into psychologically meaningful information
Provides info about: state of body, environmental issues critical for regulation of movement
, Cognition - attention, motivation, emotional aspects of motor control that underlie the
establishment of intent or goals
Dual task research emerging
Attention continuum - attentional demand of the activity
Static postural control vs. Negotiating an obstacle course
Tug test (can add cognitive or physical challenge)
Components of task - mobility
Stability
Manipulation
Motor skill - an action or task that has a goal to achieve
Skill acquisition is dependent on - practice
Experience
Skilled movements are - consistent
Fluid
Precise (timing)
Efficient
Adaptable
Discrete motor skills - recognizable beginning and end points defined by the task itself
Serial motor skills - discrete or individual skills put in series
Continuous skills - the task end point is not an inherent characteristic of the task, but decided
arbitrarily by the performer
Closed motor skills - fixed habitual patterns of movement
