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Exercise Science is the study of how physical activity, exercise, and sport influence health, fitness, and human performance. This interdisciplinary field blends principles from anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, and psychology to understand the acute and chronic effects of movement on the body. Students learn about the bodys response to physical stress, strategies for injury prevention and rehabilitation, and how to design evidence-based exercise programs for diverse populations. Exercise Science provides a strong foundation for careers in fitness, coaching, health promotion, and further studies in allied health professions.
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Human Motor Control 2nd Edition by
David A. Rosenbaum
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Excluding the computational level of description from the study of human motor control would result, primarily, in the exclusion of
A) Neurophysiology
B) Robotics
C) Human factors
D) None of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Useful levels of description for a system like the human motor system are
A) The computational level
B) The procedural level
C) The implementation level
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) The study of variability arises mainly in which domain relevant to human motor control?
A) Physics
B) Statistics
C) Engineering
D) Cognitive science
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Core Problems
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Q1) When people pick up a standing toilet plunger and move it to a new position, the result that demonstrates anticipation of their future position is that
A) They grasp the plunger low when they bring it to a high location and they grasp the plunger high when they bring it to a low location
B) They grasp the plunger high when they bring it to a high location and they grasp the plunger low when they bring it to a low location
C) They grasp the plunger at the same location all the time
D) None of the above
Answer: A
Q2) How many degrees of freedom typically exist for a physical task?
A) One
B) As many joints as in the human body
C) As many muscles as in the human body
D) An infinite number
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Physiological Foundations
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Q1) Patients with Parkinson's disease exhibit
A) Shaking motion at rest resting tremor
B) Slow movement initiation akinesia
C) Slow movement execution bradykinesia
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Contrary to the servo theory of muscle activation,
A) Intrafusal muscle fibers are generally activated before extrafusal muscle fibers are activated
B) Intrafusal muscle fibers and extrafusal muscle fibers are not really distinguishable
C) Intrafusal muscle fibers and extrafusal muscle fibers are generally activated simultaneously
D) Servo mechanisms are no longer thought to play any role in motor control
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Psychological Foundations
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Q1) The response chaining theory of sequencing has the following problem or problems
A) Successive movements often occur too quickly for any one movement to be elicited by sensory feedback from the preceding movement.
B) The same output can be followed by different outputs on different occasions.
C) Interrupting sensory feedback does not always interrupt movement.
D) All of the above
Q2) Which phenomenon is best predicted by the closed-loop theory of skill learning?
A) Specificity of practice
B) Generality of practice
C) Closing the loop
D) Chunking
Q3) Directing a great deal of attention to a task
A) Tends to help it early in practice and tends to help it late in practice
B) Tends to help it early in practice and tends to hurt it late in practice
C) Tends to hurt it early in practice and tends to hurt it late in practice
D) Tends to hurt it early in practice and tends to help it late in practice
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Chapter 5: Walking
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Q1) Which of the following results suggests that the brain plays a role in regulating postural stability?
A) Responses to stretch of the gastrocnemius muscle depends on the participant's expectations about whether the stretch will have destabilizing influences
B) Responses to stretch of the gastrocnemius muscle depends on the health of the cerebellum
C) Responses to stretch of the gastrocnemius muscle depends on the health of the vestibular system
D) All of the above
Q2) Babies between 2 and 8 months can
A) Step as well on land as in water, consistent with a physical account of the disappearance of stepping during this age range
B) Step better in water than in land, consistent with a cognitive account of the disappearance of stepping during this age range
C) Step better in water than in land, consistent with a physical account of the disappearance of stepping during this age range
D) None of the above
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Chapter 6: Looking
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Q1) Which type of eye movement is disjunctive rather than conjunctive?
A) Saccades
B) Pursuit movements
C) Vergence
D) Nystagmus size
Q2) The labyrinths of the inner ear play a critical role in
A) Coordinative structures
B) Optokinetic nystagmus
C) The vestibular-ocular reflex VOR
D) Maze learning
Q3) Saccadic suppression is
A) Stopping a saccade before it would normally occur
B) Stopping a saccade while it is occurring
C) Seeing less during saccades than during visual fixations
D) None of the above
Q4) Outflow theory says
A) Efferent commands flow out from motor neurons
B) Afferent commands flow out from sensory receptors
C) Copies of efferent commands are used to cancel perceptual inputs
D) Copies of afferent signals are used to cancel perceptual inputs
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Chapter 7: Reaching
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Q1) A method that has been used to determine how long it takes to use visual feedback to correct manual positioning movements is
A) Have people move back and forth between targets without any visual feedback in any condition
B) Have people move back and forth between targets with full visual feedback in all conditions
C) Have people move back and forth between targets with visual feedback available from one side of the space but not the other
D) Have people move back and forth between targets at different rates both with and without visual feedback
Q2) When people turn cranks that cause flags to revolve via gears
A) The people can easily generate complex rotation ratios if the seen rotation ratios are complex
B) The people can easily generate simple rotation ratios if the seen rotation ratios are simple
C) The people can easily generate complex rotation ratios if the seen rotation ratios are simple
D) Both b and c
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Chapter 8: Drawing and Writing
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Q1) According to the Two-Thirds Power Law of writing and drawing,
A) People plan the first 2/3 of what they are going to write or draw before writing or drawing
B) People write and draw with about 2/3 of the power can generate
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above
Q2) When someone writes the same script using the right or left hand, the right or left foot, or the mouth with the pen held between the teeth)
A) The quality of the writing is not the same, making any other result from this study uninteresting and useless
B) The individual's style of writing is essentially the same, showing that the Freudian approach to handwriting analysis was needlessly fixated on the hand
C) The individual's style of writing is essentially the same, showing that the Freudian approach to handwriting analysis was correct because the Freudian approach stressed underlying drives
D) The individual's style of writing is essentially the same, demonstrating motor equivalence
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Chapter 9: Keyboarding
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Q1) If it is possible to reliably alter the overall rate of keyboard sequences, one would expect
A) The ratio of any given interstroke time to the total time to remain constant
B) The ratio of any given interstroke time to the total time to grow
C) The ratio of any given interstroke time to the total time to shrink
D) Any of the above because this hypothesis has been discredited, so it doesn't make any trustworthy predictions
Q2) Serial RT tasks have shown that
A) People can learn S-R sequences without conscious awareness
B) People can learn associations between stimulus locations and response locations
C) People can learn associations between stimulus locations and response locations more easily than associations between stimulus locations and fingers for those locations.
D) All of the above
Q3) Times between keystrokes in typing are
A) Longer for transitions between hands than for transitions within hands
B) Shorter for transitions between hands than for transitions within hands
C) The same for transitions between hands and for transitions within hands
D) Impossible to measure with current technology
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Chapter 10: Speaking and Singing
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Q1) Gently tugging on facial muscles involved with production of the word "had" biases the person whose facial muscles are tugged to
A) Hear "had" rather than "head" when an acoustically neutral stimulus is played, consistent with the concept of motor resonance
B) Hear "head" rather than "had" when an acoustically neutral stimulus is played, consistent with the concept of motor resonance
C) Hear "had" or "head" with equal likelihood when an acoustically neutral stimulus is played, consistent with the concept of motor resonance
D) Hear "had" or "head" with equal likelihood when an acoustically neutral stimulus is played, contrary to the concept of motor resonance
Q2) When speech speeds up
A) Intonation flattens
B) Extraneous syllables are eliminated
C) Vowels shortens but consonants do not
D) All of the above
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Chapter 11: Smiling
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Q1) The shortest established duration for a facial expression is
A) 2 s
B) 1 s
C) .5 s
D) 40 ms
Q2) Which of the following is not a source of evidence for the proposition that facial expressions can be instigated in a deliberate or a nondeliberate "emotional" fashion.
A) Some patients with basal ganglia damage Parkinson's patients have difficulty smile emotionally masked face syndrome
B) Some patients with motor cortex lesions have difficulty deliberately
C) Some patients with damage to the pathways between the cerebral cortex and brainstem pseudobulbar palsy have difficulty suppressing facial expressions at odds with their reported emotions
D) Some patients have trouble understanding what the words deliberate and nondeliberate mean
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Chapter 12: Moving on
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Q1) Steadiness of performance deteriorates, precision of performance suffers, and the capacity to pick up peripheral visual cues decreases when
A) People are intoxicated
B) People are in states of high anxiety
C) People are distracted
D) People are still learning
Q2) In the dynamical systems approach to human motor control, the aim is to
A) Flesh out the physical underpinnings of the motor so surgeons will have better methods
B) Develop the most dynamic methods possible for teaching skills
C) Identify equations that provide abstract description of the time-varying properties of behavior
D) Replace old-fashioned physics with new, more chaotic approaches
Q3) When people count objects, they feel compelled to point at the objects. This tendency illustrates the principle of
A) Moving with others
B) Response-response compatibility
C) Stimulus-response compatibility
D) Enactive cognition
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