The first true experiment in motor learning is considered by most motor behavior historians to have been a study of the learning rates and patterns of telegraph operators reported by ________________ in 1897
A. Bryan
B. Harter
C. Bryan and Harter
D. Woodward
Question 2Who was the Russian scientist whose work in motor control and learning from the 1920s through 1950s did not come to the attention of movement scientists in the West until the 1970s, and then helped to initiate an entirely new approach to the study of motor skills?
A. Vladimir Brodsky
B. Nikolai Bernstein
C. Sergey Shevchenko
D. Vladimir Tolstoy
Question 3Which of the following time periods represents the earliest years in the scientific study of motor learning and control?
A. 1830-1860
B. 1870-1900
C. 1910-1940
D. 1950-1980
Question 4One of the earliest laws concerning the learning of skills was Edward Thorndike's observation that actions rewarded tend to be repeated, while those actions that are punished tend not to be repeated. This observation is called the Law of
A. Reinforcement.
B. Rewards.
C. Conditioning.
D. Effect.
Question 5Generally considered the most important early figure in the development of motor control as an area of scientific inquiry, this English physiologist proposed the concepts of reciprocal innervation and the final common pathway. Who was he?
A. Alfred William Brighton
B. William James
C. Clark Hull
D. Sir Charles Sherrington
Question 6While knowledge in motor learning and control is the result of scholarly inquiry representing many scholarly disciplines, the discipline having the greatest influence in the development of the field to date is
A. physiology.
B. psychology.
C. education.
D. physics.
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