Nature of the task The motor teacher must assess: the task's relation with the environment the task's relation with the person

Task relation to environment:

Motor learning researchers employ at least two important means of classifying tasks. The two ways of distinguishing tasks don't necessarily complement one another.

1. Tasks are open or closed depending on whether the TASK ENVIRONMENT is stable or changing.

2. Tasks are discrete, continuous, or serial, depending on their relation to other tasks.

3. Changes in the environment, including changing child care practices, can produce changes in sequences of infant motor development that we once considered fixed.

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Task relation to person:

• Organization of practice
• Use of feedback
• Adaptive and part-task training

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