Understanding Early Experiences and Motor Learning

Early Experiences

Early experiences, given the principle of life from the moment of fertilization, are very crucial for the organism because they occur when it is still undifferentiated. They are in critical periods of development of the individual.

• Pre-associative acquisition responses: Phenomena are habitualization, awareness, pseudo-knowledge, and inhibition.

The Learned

Almost all human behavior is learned. Man is learning all his life. It is said that a behavior is learned as a result of practice or experience and appears in the repertoire of behaviors in a more or less stable manner.

Learning is the acquisition or modification of behavior as a result of experience. The most important part of learning theory is the theory of information processing.

Motor Learning

Motor activities are sequential, i.e., they require a chain of stimuli and responses which make up the complexity of such activities. Each movement can be divided into different phases or moments.

The number of stages or moments it can be divided into determines the complexity of the movement (the more times, the greater the difficulty).

The ability to move the muscles under voluntary control is called motor skills.

Motor Skills

Motor skills involve all the movements that an individual is able to perform voluntarily. These skills involve the combination of simpler ones.

• Basic motor skills: Walking, running, throwing, jumping, hitting, touching, pushing.
• The combination of diverse skills derives other more complex or special skills (complex sports).
• The technical act: It is a proper and appropriate motor action for the final resolution of a complete sports problem.
• Sport technique: The dedication of study, mastery, and improvement of sporting gestures.

Definitions of Motor Learning

The process by which one acquires the ability to perform a series of coordinated movements in an automated fashion. In this relation with the maturation of the central and peripheral nervous system and muscle tone capacity to carry out the movements...

1. Learning is a change.
2. A relatively permanent change.
3. There are two branches:
   • Biological: Based on biological changes undergone by the subject due to its evolution and physical maturation.
   • Psychological: As the environmental influences on learning.
4. Must be learned in a comprehensive manner; it is not acquiring a concrete gesture, but increasing effectiveness against a particular situation.