FINAL

Question 1

Regulatory condition in a motor skill performance situation will include?

Answer 1

Speed of a ball during a rally

Question 2

According to Gentiles variable practice experience for closed skills should focus on varying

Answer 2

The non regulatory conditions related to the skill

Question 3

For _______ skills, regulatory conditions can change from one performance to another and during the movement execution

Answer 3

Open

Question 4

Contextual interference can be considered as a continuum ranging from low to high for the amount of interference created by the practice schedule. Which of the following types of schedules describes a low-to-high continuum of practice schedules?

Answer 4

Blocked-serial-random

Question 5

When different leveled of contextual interference during motor skill practice are compared what do the results typically show?

Answer 5

Low contextual interference schedule is better dying practice, but high contextual interference schedule shows better during transfer performance

Question 6

What does research show why practice consistently leads to poor performance for what kind of skills? Where does blocked practice schedule lead to poor performance where?

Answer 6

Transfer test

Question 7

Goode and magill article about badminton serves found that what kind of practice schedule facilitated retention and transfer of the servius skills?

Answer 7

Random practice schedule

Question 8

The hall and colleagues 1994 article demonstrated that the contextual interference effect is applicable or not applicable to what?

Answer 8

Applicable to skilled performers

Question 9

The Simon and Bork 2001 study found that when participates were asked to judge performances on a retention test, the participates who experienced a blocked schedule typically did what?

Answer 9

They overestimate retention test performance

Question 10

What do we call the hypothesis that explains the contextual interference effect based on the argument that between-trial-interference causes individuals to forget critical information that’s encoded on the previous trial is called the

Answer 10

Action plan reconstruction view

Question 11

Which of the following is not involved in practice specificity hypothesis?

Answer 11

Movement characteristics of the skill performed in practice and test situations

Question 12

The examination of brain activity that is associated with blocked and random practice provides support for what hypothesis

Answer 12

The elaboration and reconstitution hypothesis

Question 13

Question about especial skills

Answer 13

Especial skills effect can not be accounted for completely by the practice specificity or practice variable hypothesis

Question 14

Know about the experiments that were designed to demonstrate the benefits of practice variability compared to retention and/or transfer test

Answer 14

Practice variability is associated with a decreased amount of performance error during practice

Question 15

True or False: the guideline for implementing practice variability for the learning of open skills is to vary both regulatory and no regulatory conditions

Answer 15

True

Question 16

If a person experiences a practice condition where the likelihood of making errors early in practice is high, transfer performances generally what?

Answer 16

Better than that of a practice condition that kept error to a minimum

Question 17

TRUE OR FALSE: a schedule that organizes the practice of several skill variations in a serial order is an example or a practice schedule that involves a low amount of contextual interference

Answer 17

False

Question 18

TRUE OR FALSE: research has shown that people who practice in a blocked practice schedule tend to overestimate how well they are learning during practice

Answer 18

TRUE

Question 19

TRUE OR FALSE: research evidence has provided support for both the elaboration and the action plan reconstruction hypothesis that have been composed to account for the contextual interference effect

Answer 19

TRUE

Question 20

TRUE OR FALSE: homefield advantage can be explained in part what we know about incidental learning as it relates to the environment context

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

The Schendel and Hagman 1982 experiment, where they looked at machine gun assembly and dissembly skills showed that there was a benefit from overtraining, and that was an example of what kind of skill

Answer 21

A procedural skill

Question 22

When increasing the amount of practice beyond a certain point leads to results that are not proportionally more beneficial for learning, it can be said that practice has reached a point of

Answer 22

Diminishing returns

Question 23

Although research evidence supports over learning as an effective practice strategy for learning, it is important to remember that the amount of practice engaged in is

Answer 23

Not the most critical variable for influencing skill learning

Question 24

Practice schedule A involves two 1 hour practice sessions on each of three days, and schedule B involves one 1-hour practice session on each of six days, in this scenario schedule A would be referred to as

Answer 24

Massed practice

Question 25

Bradley and Longman in 1978 compared various massed and distributed training schedules for training postal workers and found this worst schedule for learning was

Answer 25

2 hour sessions, 2 times a day for 3 weeks

Question 26

Which of the following best describes. General rule about practice distribution schedules for the length and distibution of practice sessions?

Answer 26

Distibuted practice schedules are better

Question 27

Raul practiced a skill for 30 seconds and then had a 5-second test between each trail, and scarlet practiced the same skill for 30 seconds and has a 40-second rest between each trial, which of the following best describes their practice situation?

Answer 27

Raul’s practice is massed and Scarlett’s is distributed

Question 28

A limitation of research investigating massed vs distributed practice issue is what?

Answer 28

The lack of a retention or transfer test

Question 29

Which of the following statements are true?

Answer 29

Continuous skills are learned better with distributed schedules, and discrete skills are learned better with massed schedules

Question 30

When massed practice hinders the learning of continuous skills, the most probably cause is

Answer 30

Fatigue

Question 31

With reference to motor skills, the term task complexity refers to

Answer 31

Number of components in the task

Question 32

With reference to motor skills, the term task organization refers to

Answer 32

Spatial temporal relationships among the parts of the task

Question 33

According to the baylor and Briggs hypothesis, while practice is recommended for skills that are

Answer 33

Low in task complexity and high in task organization

Question 34

When utilizing the part practice strategy, parts of the skills that are _______ should be practiced separately.

Answer 34

Relatively independent from one another

Question 35

The term natural unit of parts of a skill describes a guideline for determing

Answer 35

Which components of a skill should be practiced as parts (or what parts should be grouped together)

Question 36

Which of the following describes a “simplification” strategy for facilitating the acquisition a complex skill

Answer 36

All of these

Question 37

Important benefit of the progressive part practice method is that it

Answer 37

Restricts the attention demands of the individual during practice

Question 38

If a skill should not be physically separated for part practice an alternative part practice strategy is for the learners to?

Answer 38

Direct your attention specifically to a part of the skill you are having difficulty with

Question 39

When learning an asymmetric bimanual skill in which one arm must perform a more difficult task that the other arm, what is the preferred practice approach for learning this skill is to practice

Answer 39

The more difficult task limb first, then the easier task limb

Question 40

The use of training wheels on a bicycle utilizes which method of part-whole practice?

Answer 40

Elements of all of them

Question 41

A person visually imagined himself or herself performing a skill from the perspective of an observer, this type of mental practice is referred to as

Answer 41

External imagery

Question 42

In experiments that compare all mental practice to all physical practice and to no practice conditions, the results typically that participants in all mental practice conditions learn the skill

Answer 42

Not as well as the all physical practice group but generally better than the no practice group or false