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Term Paper

• Most common and biggest problems
• Must cite all your sources
• Relying too much on one source
• APA referencing and format
• Lack of proofreading
• Not clearly stating introduction and conclusion
• Coherent and logical order
• Describing studies methods and results clearly
  and concisely

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Motor skills

• Ability to achieve an outcome with maximum
  certainty with minimal expenditure of time or
  energy
• Motor skills involve
• Perceiving some environmental goal
• Decision-making
• Motor generation

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Motor Skills

• Closed looped motor programs
• Require feedback
• In conscious awareness
• effortful
• Require attention
• Usually called controlled processes
• Kinds of feedback
• Visual
• Tactile
• Proprioceptive
• However, vision can dominate!

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Motor skills

• The shift from controlled to automatic process is
  call automatization
• Open looped motor programs
• Does not require feedback
• Does not require attention
• Not in conscious awareness
• Little effort required
• Usually called automatic processes
• Partially automatic and strongly automatic

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Motor skills

• Motor movements are represented in the brain in
  the form of motor programs or motor schemas
• Motor schema
• Flexible or general set of motor commands
• To take into account variations in motor commands
  necessary to achieve the same goal under
  different conditions (e.g. signature)

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Fitts Law
Movement Time a blog2(2Amplitude/Width)

• Shows speed-accuracy trade-offs
• Increasing distance requires faster movement
  (shorter MT)
• Decreasing width requires more accuracy (longer
  MT)

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Final exam

• Monday April 24, 1900 CLH D
• 6 m.c. per chapter (Chapters 7-12, 14-15)
• 3 short answer (6 marks each)
• 4 definitions (4 marks each)

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Things to think about for exam

• What does mental imagery say about how we
  manipulate mental representations?
• What are types of concepts?
• What are different ways we may categorize
  concepts? And how do they differ?
• How does the prototype theories explain how I
  recognize a table Ive never seen before? (Posner
  Keele, 1968)

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• Is speech special relative to other sounds?
• Historically, how has language been studies?
• What was Noam Chomskys contribution to the study
  of language?
• What are some criteria of language?
• How does modular hypothesis and linguistic
  relativism differ?

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• What are different rules of language?
• What are some brain areas that mediate speech
  production and comprehension?
• How does framing a set of alternative choices
  affect decision-making?
• What is prospect theory and how does it weigh
  gains and losses? (Kahneman Tversky, 1979)

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• What are heuristics and how do they explain
  decision-making?
• Are humans rational decision-makers?
• What is the difference between deductive and
  inductive reasoning? Think of some examples
• How do we categorize different types of problems?

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• What are the different approaches that has
  studied problem-solving? Compare how they differ
  with respect to each other
• What is the expert paradox?
• What are different kinds of motor movements?
• How does practice change a skill?
• What are some problems with highly practiced
  skills?