MOTOR LEARNING EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025-2026
true - Answers Research has shown that beginners who observe other beginners practicing a
skill will perform at a higher level when they begin to perform the skill than the beginners they
observed.
false - Answers Mirror neurons are a specific class of visuomotor neurons in the brain which are
activated when observing demonstrations. They provide a neural basis for observational
learning.
false - Answers An experiment by Green and Flowers, which had participants learn a computer-
based catching task, showed that explicit verbal instructions about the rules underlying the
movement of the ball were better for learning the skill than instructions that established a
discovery learning situation.
attention - Answers It is important that the verbal instructions given to a beginner should not
exceed that person's limited ________ capacity to attend to information.
more on the repeated segment than the two random segments, and reported they were not
aware that one segment was the same on every trial, thus demonstrating implicit learning. -
Answers In an experiment by Magill, Schoenfelder-Zhondi, and Hall, participants manually
tracked a complex pattern that consisted of two segments that were random patterns on every
trial and one segment that was the same every trial. The results showed that the participants
improved:
visual model was not as effective as the auditory model was. - Answers Research that has
compared the use of visual and auditory models on learning to move in a certain criterion
movement time or rhythm has shown that the:
point-light technique - Answers A procedure that some researchers use to investigate the
question of what an observer perceives when observing a demonstration is known as the:
more frequency is generally better than less frequency - Answers Research investigating the
influence of the frequency of demonstrating a skill has shown that:
both beginners and skilled performers - Answers Verbal cues said out loud while a person is
learning or performing a skill can help:
hindered learning. - Answers Which of the following describes the results of research on the use
of verbal instructions that direct attention to specific movement components of a skill? The
instructions:
true - Answers The short-term benefit derived from using demonstrations could be outweighed
by the long-term negative consequence of making the learner a less effective problem solver.
true - Answers When learners are able to self-select when they receive a demonstration, they
, tend to request demonstrations very infrequently.
true - Answers Verbal instructions that direct the performer's attention to the intended
movement outcomes will lead to better learning and performance than instructions that direct
attention to the movements used to perform the skill.
obsevational - Answers A term that has been used to describe the type of learning involved
when a visual model is used to demonstrate a skill is ________ learning.
true - Answers It is traditionally thought that quantitative KR ultimately leads to better motor
skill learning than qualitative KR.
true - Answers Giving augmented feedback to a beginner only when he or she requests it is
generally better than giving the augmented feedback on every trial.
true - Answers Augmented feedback that tells a beginner those aspects of the performance that
were correct can serve a motivational role to encourage the person.
only with the instructor present to point out critical information. - Answers If video replay is used
as augmented feedback for beginners, it should be used:
all these answers - Answers Which of the following is an example of the use of concurrent
augmented feedback?
outside a specific range of correctness - Answers When you give a person augmented feedback
based on a performance bandwidth, you give feedback only when the person's performance is:
ignored the task-intrinsic feedback and performed according to the erroneous KR - Answers
Participants who were given erroneous KR when they could have learned a task based on task-
intrinsic feedback without KR:
summary augmented feedback technique - Answers If a person throws a series of 50 darts at a
target that cannot be seen and is shown the results of each set of 10 throws at the end of every
10 throws, the augmented feedback technique is called the:
estimating your own error for the just complete response - Answers One activity shown to
actually benefit skill learning when it occurs in the KR-delay interval is:
motivation - Answers When augmented feedback serves to encourage a person to continue
striving to achieve a performance goal, augmented feedback functions as:
true - Answers Kinematic feedback can allow learners to quickly acquire patterns of
coordination that were once considered very difficult, if not impossible, to learn.
false - Answers Learners will always become dependent on concurrent augmented feedback,
regardless of how the feedback is displayed or presented.
true - Answers Research has shown that beginners who observe other beginners practicing a
skill will perform at a higher level when they begin to perform the skill than the beginners they
observed.
false - Answers Mirror neurons are a specific class of visuomotor neurons in the brain which are
activated when observing demonstrations. They provide a neural basis for observational
learning.
false - Answers An experiment by Green and Flowers, which had participants learn a computer-
based catching task, showed that explicit verbal instructions about the rules underlying the
movement of the ball were better for learning the skill than instructions that established a
discovery learning situation.
attention - Answers It is important that the verbal instructions given to a beginner should not
exceed that person's limited ________ capacity to attend to information.
more on the repeated segment than the two random segments, and reported they were not
aware that one segment was the same on every trial, thus demonstrating implicit learning. -
Answers In an experiment by Magill, Schoenfelder-Zhondi, and Hall, participants manually
tracked a complex pattern that consisted of two segments that were random patterns on every
trial and one segment that was the same every trial. The results showed that the participants
improved:
visual model was not as effective as the auditory model was. - Answers Research that has
compared the use of visual and auditory models on learning to move in a certain criterion
movement time or rhythm has shown that the:
point-light technique - Answers A procedure that some researchers use to investigate the
question of what an observer perceives when observing a demonstration is known as the:
more frequency is generally better than less frequency - Answers Research investigating the
influence of the frequency of demonstrating a skill has shown that:
both beginners and skilled performers - Answers Verbal cues said out loud while a person is
learning or performing a skill can help:
hindered learning. - Answers Which of the following describes the results of research on the use
of verbal instructions that direct attention to specific movement components of a skill? The
instructions:
true - Answers The short-term benefit derived from using demonstrations could be outweighed
by the long-term negative consequence of making the learner a less effective problem solver.
true - Answers When learners are able to self-select when they receive a demonstration, they
, tend to request demonstrations very infrequently.
true - Answers Verbal instructions that direct the performer's attention to the intended
movement outcomes will lead to better learning and performance than instructions that direct
attention to the movements used to perform the skill.
obsevational - Answers A term that has been used to describe the type of learning involved
when a visual model is used to demonstrate a skill is ________ learning.
true - Answers It is traditionally thought that quantitative KR ultimately leads to better motor
skill learning than qualitative KR.
true - Answers Giving augmented feedback to a beginner only when he or she requests it is
generally better than giving the augmented feedback on every trial.
true - Answers Augmented feedback that tells a beginner those aspects of the performance that
were correct can serve a motivational role to encourage the person.
only with the instructor present to point out critical information. - Answers If video replay is used
as augmented feedback for beginners, it should be used:
all these answers - Answers Which of the following is an example of the use of concurrent
augmented feedback?
outside a specific range of correctness - Answers When you give a person augmented feedback
based on a performance bandwidth, you give feedback only when the person's performance is:
ignored the task-intrinsic feedback and performed according to the erroneous KR - Answers
Participants who were given erroneous KR when they could have learned a task based on task-
intrinsic feedback without KR:
summary augmented feedback technique - Answers If a person throws a series of 50 darts at a
target that cannot be seen and is shown the results of each set of 10 throws at the end of every
10 throws, the augmented feedback technique is called the:
estimating your own error for the just complete response - Answers One activity shown to
actually benefit skill learning when it occurs in the KR-delay interval is:
motivation - Answers When augmented feedback serves to encourage a person to continue
striving to achieve a performance goal, augmented feedback functions as:
true - Answers Kinematic feedback can allow learners to quickly acquire patterns of
coordination that were once considered very difficult, if not impossible, to learn.
false - Answers Learners will always become dependent on concurrent augmented feedback,
regardless of how the feedback is displayed or presented.
