Sensation and Movement Flashcards on Sensation and Movement, created by Mark Arsenal on 21/04/2013.
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Name some Neural Diseases which affect movement:
What are the differences between the Motor and Sensory Pathways?
What are the main divisions of the brain?
Give basic information about the Cerebral Hemispheres:
Give basic information about the Diencephalon:
Give basic information about the Cerebellum:
Give basic information about the Brainstem:
Give basic information about the Cerebral Cortex:
What are Reflexes?
What is the difference between the Forebrain and Hindbrain?
What are Spinal Nerves?
What is the Spinal Cord, and how does it transmit information?
Briefly describe the Nervous Systems Hierarchy of Control:
What are the consequences of damage at the higher and lower Nervous System Centers?
What is 2-Point Discrimination?
What is Sensory Mapping?
How do we feel?
How does the Cutaneous System (skin) feel?
What are the 4 types of Mechanoreceptor found in the Dermis of the Cutaneous System? and how do they allow us to feel?
We know we can categorize sensation through the description of the sensation, but how?
What is Resolution in regards to touch sensation?
What is Acuity in regards to touch sensation?
What is Lateral Inhibition?
What is a Dermatome?
What is the difference between Ipsilateral and Contralateral Transmission?
What is Brown-Sequard Syndrome?
Why do we have synapses?
What are Synapses?
What are the 3 types of Synapse?
How does neurotransmitter transmission occur at a synapse?
What are Ligands? And what role do they play at the Synapse?
What are Ligands? And what role do they play at the Synapse?
What is the difference between Ionotropic and Metabotropic direct gating mechanisms?
What types of transmitter are there?
What are Miniature End Plate Potentials?
What is sensation? and how can we categorize it?
What are the types of Sensation Modalities?
We know we can categorize Sensation by the location on the body, but how?
What is Bandwidth?
What is Bandwidth?
What is the difference between Serial and Parallel informational processing?
What is Membrane Capacitance?
We know Membrane Capacitance regulates Frequency but how does it limit nerve transmission velocity?
What does Myelination do?
What is information?
What is Noise?
What is the difference between Passive and Active Transmission?
How do AP's propagate nerve transmission in Active Transport?
What is a Refractory Period in relation to Nerve Conductance?
What is a Relative Refractory Period and Absolute Refractory Period in relation to Nerve Conductance?
What is Rate Coding?
What is meant by Spatial Coding?
Why do we have Myelin?
What is Nerve Growth and Guidance?
What is Axoplasmic Transport?
What is Synaptogenesis?
Can nerves regrow after being cut?
How can we investigate Neural Function?
Why do we have a Nervous System?
How does the nervous system transmit its signals:
What is the Space Constant?
What is Inherent Feedback?
What is Augmented Feedback?
What is meant by the term Knowledge of Result?
What is Knowledge of Performance?
Give a brief explanation of types of Knowledge of Performance FB and discuss there effectiveness (HINT THINK AUGMENTED FB FOR TYPES)
How does the precision of Knowledge of Result FB affect its effectiveness?
What is meant by the term Bandwidth of Knowledge of Result?
What does the term Schedules of KoR relate to?
Can the athlete receive too much Knowledge of Result FB?
What did Schmidt et al (1978:1979) find in relation to Fitts Law?
What is the 'Temporal Speed-Accuracy Trade Off'?
What did Newell et al (1980) find in relation to the Temporal Speed Accuracy Trade-Off?
Explain the Wing-Kristofferson (1973) Hierarchical Model of Timing:
Explain the Power Law of Practice as defined by Fitts (1964):
What is the Power Law of Practice Power Function Equation?
What are the characteristics of Pre-Practice?
What is meant by the process of Modelling?
What is meant by the term Distribution of Practice? and what did Bourne and Archer (1956) find?
What is meant by the term Variability in Practice?
What is Schmidt (1975) Schema Theory?
What is Schmidt (1975) Schema Theory?
How does Variability of Practice affect Practice Retention and how Practice in other similar skills can be transferred?
What other factors affect the effectiveness of Variability of Practice?
Part vs Whole Practice:
What is the principle behind the 'Speed-Accuracy Trade Off'?
What is Fitts Law?
Woodworth (1899) tested the effect of vision on Action Error, but what did he find?
What are some Problems associated with the theory of Closed Loop Control?
What is the Feed-forward/Efferrent Copy Mechanism?
What is the Feed-forward/Efferrent Copy Mechanism?
What is the definition of a Motor Program?
How can you link an Open Loop Plan with Closed Loop Guidance?
How can you link an Open Loop Plan with Closed Loop Guidance? (IMAGE)
What are the 2 types of Movement Errors?
What is a Generalized Motor Program?
What is Closed Loop Control?
What is Closed Loop Control?
What is a Unit of Action?
Describe Holt and Taylor (1981) Gait Transition Theory?
What is Dynamic Pattern Theory?
What did Yamanshi et al (1980) find with regard to 'Self Organised Process'?
What are the four types of Attention?
What was Broadbent 1958 theory on Attention?
After Broadbent 1958 Attention Theory was disproved what have more recent studies found?
What is the Stroop Test 1953?
What is the Cocktail Party Effect?
What is Attentional Blindness?
What happens when you are presented with 2 Stimuli at a time?
What is The Psychological Refractory Period- Tellford (1931)?
What is the Inter Response Interval?
What 3 factors affect the effect of when 2 stimuli compete?
What is the difference between Continuous and Discrete Tasks?
What did Posner and Keele (1969) find in regard to Discrete Tasks?
What does the Dual Task Method find?
