Contiuums

Question 1

Definition of motor/movement skill?

Answer 1

An action or task that has a goal and that requires voluntary body and/or limb movement to achieve the goal and is learned rather than being innate

Question 2

What is a complex skill?

Answer 2

When there are many decisions to make.

May have to be learned in stages

Question 3

What is a simple skill?

Answer 3

When the skill is straightforward with hardly any judgments and decisions to make. It can be taught as a whole and in a fairly repetitive way

Question 4

What is a open skill?

Answer 4

• affected by the environment and predominantly perceptual

* movement have to be adapted to the environment and the skill is most externally paced

Question 5

What is a closed skill?

Answer 5

• not affected by the environment and are predominantly habitual
• movements follow a set pattern and have a definite beginning and end
• tend to be self-paced

Question 6

What is a self-paced skill?

Answer 6

• the performer controls the rate at which the skill is executed
• proaction by the performer
• usually closed skills

Question 7

What is a externally-paced skill?

Answer 7

• the environment, which may include your opponent, controls the rate of performing the skill
• involves a reaction
• usually a open skill

Question 8

What is a gross skill?

Answer 8

• involve large muscle movements
• not very precise
• include many of the fundamental patterns such as walking and jumping

Question 9

What is a fine skill?

Answer 9

• involve more intricate movements using small muscle groups
• tend to be precise in nature
• Generally involve a high degree of hand -eye-co-ordination

Question 10

What is a high organisation skill?

Answer 10

• a skill has a element or sub-routines that are very difficult to separate

Question 11

What is a low organisation skill?

Answer 11

• a skill that is split up into sub-routines that are easily identified as separate movements

Question 12

What is a sub-routine?

Answer 12

The elements, or separate movements, that’s make up a particular skill

Question 13

What is a discrete skill?

Answer 13

> have a clear beginning and clear end

> skill can be repeated but the performer must start again from the beginning

> specific single skill

Question 14

What is a serial skill?

Answer 14

> have several discrete elements which are put together to make an integrated movement or sequence of movements

> e.g the sequence of skills in a triple jump

Question 15

What is a continuous skill?

Answer 15

> e.g cycling
no obvious beginning or end

> the end of one cycle is the beginning of the next

> the skill is repeated as a set pattern