classification of skills

Question 1

what are the names of the six continuums?

Answer 1

• environmental
• muscular involvement
• pacing
• difficulty
• organisation
• continuity

Question 2

what are the two ends of the ‘environmental’ continuum?

Answer 2

• open skills
• closed skills

Question 3

what are the two ends of the ‘muscular involvement’ continuum?

Answer 3

• gross skills
• fine skills

Question 4

what are the two ends of the ‘pacing’ continuum?

Answer 4

• externally paced skills
• self paced skills

Question 5

what are the two ends of the ‘difficulty’ continuum?

Answer 5

• complex skills
• simple skills

Question 6

what are the two ends of the ‘organisation’ continuum?

Answer 6

• high organisation skills
• low organisation skills

Question 7

what are the three ends of the ‘continuity’ continuum?

Answer 7

• discrete skills
• serial skills
• continuous skills

Question 8

environmental continuum:

what are examples of open skills and closed skills?

Answer 8

open: hockey dribble
closed: handstand in gymnastics

Question 9

muscular involvement continuum:

what are examples of gross and fine skills?

Answer 9

gross: shooting in basketball
fine: spinning a ball

Question 10

pacing continuum:

what are examples of externally paced and self paced skills?

Answer 10

externally paced: batting in rounders
self paced: rock climbing

Question 11

difficulty continuum:

what are examples of complex and simple skills?

Answer 11

complex: passing in football
simple: high jump

Question 12

organisation continuum:

what are examples of high and low organisation skills?

Answer 12

high organisation: sprinting
low organisation: bowling in cricket

Question 13

continuity continuum:

what are examples of discrete, serial and continuous skills?

Answer 13

discrete: a backflip in gymnastics
serial: triple jump
continuous: cycling

Question 14

environmental continuum:

what classifies a skill as open and closed?

Answer 14

open: in changing environments, requires information processing

closed: in unchanging environments, limited information processing

Question 15

muscular involvement continuum:

what classifies a skill as gross and fine?

Answer 15

gross: uses large muscle groups, does not require precision

fine: uses small muscle groups, requires precision

Question 16

pacing continuum:

what classifies a skill as externally and self paced?

Answer 16

externally paced: environmental factors determine when the performer starts the movement

self paced: performer decides when to start the movement

Question 17

difficulty continuum:

what classifies a skill as complex and simple?

Answer 17

complex: requires decision making, needs information processing

simple: needs minimal decision making, limited information processing

Question 18

organisation continuum:

what classifies a skill as high and low organisation?

Answer 18

high organisation: difficult to break down into subroutines

low organisation: easy to break down into subroutines

Question 19

continuity continuum:

what classifies a skill as discrete, serial and continuous?

Answer 19

discrete: has a clear beginning and end

serial: a series of discrete skills

continuous: doesn’t have a clear beginning and end