Overall objectives:

1. - To know, dominate and distinguish the concepts of learning, development and performance in the context of physical activity and sport training.
2. - To identify and understand the theories and factors that explain motor learning as a performance improvement process.
3. - Interpreting the process control and motor learning in theoretical and practical situations in physical activity and sport training.
4. - To participate and intervene appropriately in class, show ability of understanding and application of knowledge.

Syllabus:

1. - Growth, Maturation, Motor Learning, Performance and Motor Development.
2. - Motor learning as a process of consistent improvement in performance.Relationship and distinction between Learning and Performance. Factors and associated criteria.
3. - Motor control. Central Nervous System and classification of movements. The reflex, the rudimentary and voluntary ones.
4. - Learning operations: Mental Representation and Feedback. Definition, phases and associated factors.
5. - Information, memory and motor learning.
6. - Information and task.
7. - Concept of Perceptual Strategies.
8. - Stages of information processing: identification, choice and programming.
9. - Scheme Theory. Generic Motor Program. The variability of practice conditions.
10. - Ecological Perspective of Motor Learning.
11. - Motor transfer and learning.
12 - Return information on the result. Factors: time of actuation, precision and quantity of KR.
13 - Motivation and motor learning.
14 - Task analysis, learning and contradictory tendencies.

Literature/Sources:

M. Godinho , 2002 , Controlo Motor e Aprendizagem: Fundamentos e Aplicações , Lisboa. Edições FMH, 2ª edição
R. Schmidt, ´C. Wrisberg , 2004 , Motor Control and Performance , Human Kinetics. Third Edition
A. L. Teixeira. , 2006 , Controle Motor , Edições Manole, São Paulo ? Brasil
Godinho, M. , 2005 , Controlo motor e aprendizagem: trabalhos práticos , Edições FMH
Schmidt, R. & Lee, T. , 2014 , Motor Learning and Performance. From Principles to Application , With Web Study Guide Human Kinetics
Schmidt, R. & Lee, T. , 2011 , Motor Control and Learning. A Behavioral Emphasis , Human Kinetics, Champaign

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
1. Exposition of the information of the contents with possibility of intervention and clarification of doubts. 2. Development of additional readings about contents as a way of deepening knowledge. 3. Active and relevant participation of the students in the classes (10% of the final grade) through the answers to the questions and the application of the knowledge, therefore, a minimum attendance of 75% of the classes is required. 4. Assessment of knowledge through a test (50%), requiring a minimum grade of 9.5 values to be proficient, and may go to resource assessment. 5. Achievement of two work sheets (20% + 20%).