Characteristics Of Skill (Book 1)

Question 1

What is a skill?

Answer 1

A skill is the learned ability to bring about pre-determined results with the maximum certainty and minimum outlay of time, energy or both.

Question 2

Are we born with skills?

Answer 2

We are not born with skills already programmed into us, we have to learn them.

Question 3

What are the 5 key characteristics of a skill?

Answer 3

Effortlessness

Question 4

State the 3 types of skill.

Answer 4

Perceptual skill
Cognitive skill
Motor skill

Question 5

What is a perceptual skill?

Answer 5

This is a skill which requires an interpretation of stimuli.

Question 6

Batting a ball in cricket is a practical example of a perceptual skill what stimuli may a player have to interpret?

Answer 6

Speed of ball
Flight of ball
Spin of the ball
Angle of the ball
Position of the other team

Question 7

What is a cognitive skill?

Answer 7

This is a skill which requires the ability to solve problems by thinking/the use of intellect.

Question 8

What is a motor skill?

Answer 8

This is a skill which involves movement and it should be a correct movement which follows the correct technical model.

Question 9

What is a motor skill?

Answer 9

This is a skill which involves movement and it should be a correct movement which follows the correct technical model.

Question 10

What is an example of a motor skill?

Answer 10

Jogging

Question 11

What is a psychomotor skill?

Answer 11

This is a skill which which is a combination of all 3 types of skill (cognitive,motor,perceptual)