Lesson 3 - Presenting a Practice

Question 1

What is whole practice?

Answer 1

• Practising the skill in its entirety

Question 2

What is whole part whole practice?

Answer 2

• Assessing the skill, identifying a weakness to practise, then putting the skill back together

Question 3

What is progressive part practice?

Answer 3

• Practicing the first part of the skill then adding parts gradually.
• Sometimes called chaining.
• Good when learning trampoline/dance routines.

Question 4

What is massed practice?

Answer 4

• Massed practice involves repeating the skill or action on numerous occasions with few or no rest periods.
• Used when skill is discrete, simple, closed, highy organised, self paced

Question 5

What are the advantages and disadvantages of massed practice?

Answer 5

Adv:
- Forms motor programmes
- Increases fitness
- Enhances over learning
- Good for habitual responses
- Efficient

Disadv:
- No time for feedback
- Fatigue
- Too demanding

Question 6

What is distributed practice?

Answer 6

• Distributed practice involves rest intervals between sessions; used when skill is continuous when the performer may need a break.
• Used when skill is continuous, complex, low organised, serial, externally paced.

Question 7

What are the advantages and disadvantages of distrbuted practice?

Answer 7

Adv:
- Allows revovery
- Less mental pressure
- Allows mental rehearsal/feedback
- Reduces danger

Disadv:
- Time consuming
- Negative transfer

Question 8

What is varied practice?

Answer 8

• Varied practice involves changing the practice conditions to incorporate as many different situations as possible, in a range of different contexts which replicate the various situations found in competition.
• Used when skill is complex, open, externally paced

Question 9

What are the advantages and disadvantages of varied practice?

Answer 9

Adv:
- Builds a schema
- Gives motivation
- Allows adaptation

Disadv:
- Time consuiming
- Posibility of negative transfer
- Fatigue
- Too demanding

Question 10

What is mental practice?

Answer 10

• Mental practice is the cognitive rehearsal of a physical skill without movement. You visualize or imagine yourself going through the actions, but don’t actually do them
• Used when skill is serial/complex, used by both novice and expert, internal: emotional, external: mental picutre of environment.

Question 11

What are the advantages and disadvantages of mental practice?

Answer 11

Adv:
- Improves reaction time
- Builds motor programmes
- Builds confiecne
- Controls anxiety

Disadv:
- Must be correct
- Environment must be calm