Chapter 1 Quiz

If that's on a scatterplot are close to the best fitting line passing through them The correlation between scores they represent is close to zero

False

Skills are different from movements because

are different from movements because they have a specific goal

To compute root mean square error (RMSE)

A persons tracking behavior is slice from continuous movement into discrete intervals

Performing one bench press at the gym

Discrete

Shooting a basketball free-throw

Discrete

Descriptors used for discussing motor learning

Come from literature on human performance

Paddling in a canoe

Continuous

Swimming in open water

Continuous

Serial skills unfold in an ongoing fashion without a recognizable beginning and end

False

Making a pizza

Serial

Variable error (VE) measures

The consistency of error in a block of trials

An experiment that supports a hypothesis does not prove that theory is correct

True

Open Skills

occur in a variable and unpredictable environment

Scientist use theories

to make________, which can help form_______ that can be tested Predictions, hypotheses