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Nov 04, 2026
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EXER 205 - Motor Learning and Performance
PREREQUISITES: Demonstrated competency through appropriate assessment or earning a grade of “C” or better in ENGL 093 - Introduction to College Writing and ENGL 083 - Reading Strategies for College or ENGL 095 - Integrated Reading and Writing , or ENGL 075 - Co-Requisite Integrated Reading .
PROGRAM: Kinesiology and Exercise Science
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: N/A
An evaluation of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors that affect motor skill acquisition, performance, retention, and transfer. With a focus on voluntary movement, topics include nervous system control of movement, sensory and perceptual contributions to motor learning, information processing, optimal conditions for learning motor skills, preferred modes of feedback delivery during learning, and individual variability in motor skill acquisition. Students will apply the principles of motor learning to sport and fitness.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Discuss the role of Generalized Motor Programs in skilled sports movements
- Analyze the motor behaviors involved in skilled sports movements.
- Explain the role of motor learning in physical skill acquisition.
- Describe the role of information processing in human performance.
- Compare and contrast the positive and negative aspects of distraction and double-stimulation.
- Differentiate dorsal and ventral stream processing in motor control feedback processing.
- Explain the speed-accuracy trade-off in controlling and timing movements.
- Differentiate between skill and ability in sport movements.
- Distinguish learning from performance.
- Develop an experiment to evaluate motor learning in the process of the acquisition of a specific skill.
- Design practice sessions using whole/part practice, constant/variable practice, blocked/random practice, and mental practice.
- Differentiate between knowledge of performance and knowledge of result feedback and understand the appropriate use of each.
- Apply motor learning skills to clinical and subclinical areas of rehabilitation.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Motor Learning and Control
- Generalized Motor Program
- Knowledge of Performance
- Knowledge of Result
- Skill Acquisition
- Hick’s Law
- Reaction Time
- Anticipation
- Donders’ Stages of Processing
- Attention/Distraction
- Arousal
- Open/Closed Skills
- Discrete/Continuous/Serial Skills
- Error Scores
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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