Abilities

Question 1

One of our driving influences on understanding abilities and predicting future success is …

Answer 1

recruiting for sports

Question 2

What is an ability?

Answer 2

• a fundamental characteristic that tends to underlie particular skills
• is largely inherited genetically and is not modifiable by practice

Question 3

Name 4 differences between abilities and skills.

Answer 3

• abilities are inherited traits, skills are developed with practice
• abilities are stable and enduring, skills are easily modified with practice
• abilities are numbered at maybe 50, skills are essentially countless in number
• each ability underlies many different skills, each skill depends on several abilities

Question 4

How can predictions help?

Answer 4

• can help direct a novice into a sport they can excel in
• Focus training individuals that have potential to meet criteria for excellence (cost and time savings)
• Olympic training and selection procedures of many countries

Question 5

Attempts at predictions involve these components:

Answer 5

• Understanding/ Identifying the abilities that underlie the criterion task (skill)
• Estimating the strength of these abilities in applicant/ performer
• Estimating the potential (future) skill level based on present information about the applicant’s abilities.

Question 6

What is the general motor ability hypothesis?

Answer 6

• A person with strong general motor ability should be good at all motor tasks.
• held that all motor performances are based on a single ability called general motor ability.
• outdated view
• incorrect

Question 7

A skill has …

Answer 7

several contributing fundamental motor abilities.

Question 8

Abilities can…

Answer 8

play dominant and weak roles in a skill.

Question 9

2 different skills will have different ….

Answer 9

patterns of underlying abilities

Question 10

2 different skills can have …

Answer 10

few abilities in common.

Question 11

How is there a way that General Motor Ability Hypothesis does make some sense?

Answer 11

• Correlations of abilities to skills are not high BUT they are not ZERO
• superability

Question 12

What is superability?

Answer 12

the slight advantage a person may have with a strong ability

Question 13

Patterns of ability change with _______.

Answer 13

practice

Question 14

Although an individual might have the proper ______ for

novice performance, this often is not the proper _____ required for expert performance.

Answer 14

• abilities

- pattern of abilities

Question 15

Selecting people because they are good as novices will…

Answer 15

capture only a part of the job of prediction

Question 16

Most knowledge about abilities is based on …

Answer 16

relatively novice-level performances

Question 17

Why is predicting high-level performance difficult?

Answer 17

little is known about the abilities that underlie very high-level performances

Question 18

How effective is skill prediction?

Answer 18

Generally, not very effective in motor behavior

Question 19

Why is skill prediction not very effective in motor behaviour?

Answer 19

• Underlying abilities in motor performances have not been studied systematically and are not well understood.
• The number of underlying abilities is probably large, requiring that many abilities be measured.
• Pattern of relevant abilities shifts with practice and experience, making prediction of expert performances difficult.

Question 20

Both NFL and NHL combine test showed that…

Answer 20

they could find no consistent statistical relationship between the tests and performance with the exception of sprinting tests for running backs

Question 21

What is deliberate play?

Answer 21

develops tools/skills early on that seem to transfer to elite performance later on

Question 22

When does the Leadership Summit 2013 “Identifying and Developing Athletes” recommend to specialize?

Answer 22

15 years old