HPE 160 - Exam 4

Ergonomics is considered an area of study within Motor Behavior.

A licensed professional who assists individuals maintain or recover working skills and daily function

Applies laws/principles of mechanics/physics to enhance sport performance w/improvement in movement techniques/equipment

Dynamic biomechanics investigates bodies, masses, and forces when they are speeding up or slowing down.

Fredrich Ludwig Jahn was a German educator who is often considered the father of gymnastics.

Early work on motor behavior focused on understanding/explaining the control of muscle contraction by the nervous system

Joseph Goldberger developed the smallpox vaccination in 1796.

This examines bodies, masses, and forces at rest or moving at a constant velocity.

Requires individuals, ed. programs, or institutions to be evaluated & recognized as meeting predetermined standards.

Dr. John Snow developed the polio vaccine.

Dr. Edward Jenner discovered water borne transmission of cholera.

Licensure is granting permission by an official/legal authority to an individual/organization to legally practice

In Motor learning, __ is the interference that results from practicing several different tasks within 1 practice session

Often only required to be certified, works with individuals to assess functional capacity; develop & implement programs

Who developed the psychoanalytic method for treatment of mental illness in the 1900’s

Profession has 3 categories; clinical, sport & ergonomics, which focuses on mechanics of injury, movement, objects

In referring to motor skill & information processing; stimulus recognition is a collection of info. from the environment

Umbrella term, describes study of interactions between many of the physiologic and psychological processes of the body

Study of how individuals learn skilled movements from practice or experience

Who linked environmental factors as disease causation

Examinations for individual certifications generally include both written and interactive components

Requires completion of several trials of a single skill or movement without receiving any information about performance