Motor Control Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Motor Control explores the principles and mechanisms underlying the regulation of movement by the human nervous system. This course examines how motor actions are planned, coordinated, executed, and modified in response to both internal and external factors. Topics include neural pathways, sensory contributions to movement, motor learning and adaptation, and the impact of neurological injuries or disorders on movement. Through theoretical study and practical applications, students will gain an understanding of how voluntary and involuntary movements are controlled, ultimately informing practices in rehabilitation, physical therapy, sports science, and neuroscience.
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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) The field of human motor control is concerned with A) Movement
B) Stability
C) Movement and stability
D) Human motivation
Answer: C
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) Developing an understanding of human motor control can benefit
A) Sports
B) The arts
C) The home and the workplace
D) All of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Core Problems
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Q1) Relying on mechanics may help solve the degrees of freedom problem because A) Mechanics know how to fix cars
B) Mechanics is a branch of physics
C) Mechanical features of the body and external environment may make it unnecessary to control some variables related to movement and stability
D) No other method helps solve the degrees of freedom problem
Answer: C
Q2) Which two terms are synonyms mean the same thing)?
A) Ballistic and closed-loop
B) Closed-loop and open-loop
C) Ballistic and open-loop
D) Negative feedback and positive feedback
Answer: C
Q3) Mirror neurons
A) Are only activated when people see themselves in a mirror
B) Are only activated when people see very shiny surfaces
C) Are only activated when people stroke very smooth, glassy surfaces
D) None of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Physiological Foundations
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Q1) Whereas stretch receptors fire when muscles lengthen,
A) Golgi tendon fire when muscles contract
B) Golgi tendon organs fire when muscles expand like a balloon
C) Golgi tendon organs fire only when muscles co-contract
D) None of the above
Answer: A
Q2) Procedural knowledge is illustrated by _________ , whereas declarative knowledge is illustrated by ___________.
A) Knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, riding a bicycle
B) Not knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, later knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4
C) Knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, later not knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4
D) None of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Which neural element in the following list could best called an element of "self-control"?
A) Motor neuron
B) Tendon
C) Ia fiber
D) Renshaw cell
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Psychological Foundations
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Q1) 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
Q2) Buffers hold information
A) For more time than short-term memory does
B) For more time than long-term memory does
C) For less time than long-term memory does
D) For the same amount of time that short-term memory does and that long-term memory does
Q3) The hierarchical theory of sequencing provides a basis for explaining which phenomenon that the response chaining theory, element-to-position theory, and inter-element inhibition theory do not?
A) Supervisory behavior
B) Slavish behavior
C) Rule-governed behavior
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: Walking
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Q1) 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
Q2) The idea that the physical layout of the external environment is directly specified by the optical array emanating from it is central to the theory of
A) Ecological perception
B) Route and survey maps
C) Sway
D) Anticipatory postural adjustments
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Chapter 6: Looking
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Q1) Saccade amplitudes are increased by firing more motor neurons in relevant cranial nerves and by increasing the durations of their firing. Consistent with this model,
A) Saccade peak velocities increase with saccade amplitudes
B) Saccade peak velocities decrease with saccade amplitudes
C) Saccade peak velocities do not vary with saccade amplitudes
D) Saccade peak velocities depend on how individuals pursue moving targets with their eyes
Q2) Neural discharge properties closely linked to eye postions have
A) Never been found
B) Been found in Brodman's area 3a, located near areas of somatosensory cortex that respond to touch on the face, mouth, and lips
C) Been found in the cerebellum
D) Been found in frontal eye fields
Q3) Which type of eye movement is disjunctive rather than conjunctive?
A) Saccades
B) Pursuit movements
C) Vergence
D) Nystagmus size
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Chapter 7: Reaching
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Q1) In tasks involving finger movements, it has been found, even in patients lacking sensory feedback from their fingers, that
A) Distance reproduction is as good as location reproduction
B) Distance reproduction is better than location reproduction
C) Distance reproduction is worse than location reproduction
D) No reproduction is ever possible
Q2) Babies appear to take full advantage of visual feedback for reaching by
A) Three months of age
B) Five months of age
C) Seven months of age
D) Nine months of age
Q3) The graph relating acceleration to displacement
A) Has larger loops for high IDs than low IDs
B) Has larger loops for low IDs than high IDs
C) Has equal-size loops for low and high IDs
D) Has never been studied
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Chapter 8: Drawing and Writing
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Q1) Coupled oscillator models of writing and drawing fail to account for the fact that
A) Writing and drawing can be coupled
B) Writing and drawing show features consistent with rate scaling
C) Writing and drawing can be decomposed into movements on orthogonal independent) axes
D) Writing speed depends on context effects, whether successive letters are the same or not
Q2) The way people copy simple geometric forms indicates that
A) Semantic factors play a role in copying
B) Strokes are ordered according to rules
C) The ordering of strokes may be indicative of neurological health
D) All of the above
Q3) In the domain of handwriting, "hookers"
A) Hustle their writing
B) Write with larger loops than "non-hookers"
C) Add extra hooks to the letters they produce
D) Tend to hook one hand but not the other when they write
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Chapter 9: Keyboarding
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Q1) Which of the following suggests that words, but not phrases, are production units for typewriting?
A) Typists do better when typing nonwords than words, but type randomly ordered words as quickly as sentences
B) Typists do better when typing words than nonwords, but type randomly ordered words more quickly than sentences
C) Typists do better when typing words than nonwords, but type randomly ordered words as quickly as sentences
D) Typists do better when typing nonwords than words, but type randomly ordered words less quickly than sentences
Q2) The classic model of typewriting developed by Rumelhart and Norman 1982 relied on A) Activation but not inhibition between word nodes and keystroke nodes
B) Inhibition but not activation between word nodes and keystroke nodes
C) Activation and inhibition between word nodes and keystroke nodes
D) Rejection of connectionism
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Chapter 10: Speaking and Singing
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Q1) Imagine that painless electrodes could be attached to a person's throat and the electrodes picked up subvocal electromyographic activity that was directly related to the speech the person herad. This outcome would provide strong support for
A) Distinctive features
B) Glottals
C) Constrictives
D) The motor theory of speech perception
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the three subsystems of the vocal tract?
A) The coarticulation subsystem
B) The respiratory subsystem
C) The laryngeal subsystem
D) The articulatory subsystem
Q3) Speed production is affected by feedback, as shown by which of the following results?
A) Delayed auditory feedback can give rise to stuttering
B) People can speak intelligibly while holding pipes in their mouths
C) Deafness leads, over the long term, to changes in vocal quality
D) All of the above
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Chapter 11: Smiling
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Q1) Based on the finding that people everywhere exhibit the same expressions for the same emotions, it has been claimed that there is a genetic basis for the link between emotion and expression. Bolstering this claim further,
A) Infants grimace when exposed to painful stimuli
B) Infants smile when exposed to pleasant stimuli
C) Infants cry for unexplained reasons
D) a and b
Q2) The shortest established duration for a facial expression is
A) 2 s
B) 1 s
C) .5 s
D) 40 ms
Q3) The zygomatic major muscle is responsible for which expression?
A) Smiling
B) Frowning
C) Looking scared
D) Looking surprised
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Chapter 12: Moving on
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Q1) According to Lee's "tau" principle, the more quickly the image of an object expands on the retina,
A) The more time there is until contact is made with the object
B) The less time there is until contact is made with the object
C) The brighter the object appears to be
D) The dimmer the object appears to be
Q2) A study described in Chapter 12 showed that observers judged movements with high mean speeds as connoting anger or excitement whereas observers judged movements with low mean speeds as connoting sadness or fatigue. An innovation of this study was that
A) The observed movements were point-light displays
B) The observed movements were inverted point-light displays
C) The observed movements were inverted and scrambled point-light displays
D) All of the above
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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