ESSENTIAL OF PSYCHOLOGY: Sports Performance

Human beings use movement to learn about their world, to function in the world as they grow and mature, and to maintain healthy bodies. Individuals must learn to move and at the same time move to learn. Children explore their worlds through movement and make fundamental links between action and reality through movement. The scientific study and principles that under-gird motor learning provides the guidance and an underlying, Motor learning is when complex processes in the brain occur in response to practice or experience of a certain skill resulting in changes in the central nervous system that allow for production of a new motor skill. The process of improving motor skills through practice, with long lasting changes in the capability for responding. The cerebellum and basal nuclei play a major role in such coordination.