Project Questions

Question 1

[cartwheel] Which type of practice do you think would have been more beneficial for children (part or whole)?

Answer 1

• Part: some children might be scared to do the whole task, easier to break up task when they are younger. Child has problems inverting or shifting weight. Move this person as quickly into whole practice as possible.
• Whole: if they are fearless, it is better to make them do whole practice

Question 2

[cartwheel] Do you think pre learned motor programs may have made this skill easier or more difficult to learn as an adult?

Answer 2

• Having good balance

- Being used to tucking in vs. straightening limbs

Question 3

[cartwheel] More examples of when a pre learned motor skill can negatively transfer to learning other skills?

Answer 3

• Swing of baseball to golf

- Volleyball 3 foot approach vs. long jump (2 foot jump)

Question 4

[racquetball] When you don’t get the results that you expect, what factors could have impacted the results? What would the coach have to look at?

Answer 4

• Experience
• Fatigue
• More fatigue = less motivation
• Deliberate practice: how many of all reps were deliberate

Question 5

[LH football throw] why did variable practice work better?

Answer 5

• One had more experience
• May have been transfer of learning from right arm to left arm
• Practice structure: maybe variable practice is better
• Deliberate practice

Question 6

[Water Pong] Do you think it would be beneficial for adolescents to use this skill as a way of learning within sports?

Answer 6

transferability

Question 7

[Water Pong] What abilities might have made Shae more successful?

Answer 7

• Height
• Sight
• Past experience

Question 8

[Pool] Do you think that playing in a public place affected their results?

Answer 8

People are distracting

Question 9

[Pool] Why do you think that contextual interference plays a role in their project for constant practice?

Answer 9

• get comfortable/bored with doing one style of shot and takes time to get used to the next shot
• Usually see better performance in practice (at one location)
• Takes time to realize they’re switching shots

Question 10

[Pool] Why do you think that contextual interference plays a role in their project for varied practice?

Answer 10

• constantly changing styles, doesn’t take time to adjust from one to another
• Not as good at a single location
• Look at not only the retention and pre test but look at practice data

Question 11

[chopsticks] Name some factors that may have affected performance in the retention test.

Answer 11

• Height of the table
• Motivation
• Hand getting sore

Question 12

[Chopsticks] Do you think it’s easy to learn a skill with prior experience with a non dominant hand as opposed to no prior experience with non dominant hand?

Answer 12

• yes

- transferability

Question 13

[non dominant overhand throw] What could have improved their performance?

Answer 13

• More trials
• Longer experiment
• More test subjects
• Figure out a way of assessing the performance and improving the performance

Question 14

[non dominant overhand throw] Provide evidence of why slow motion training of a motor skill would be helpful.

Answer 14

• same general motor plan
• more brain engagement in slow motion
• throwing slow motion only changes how the GMP is expressed, not the plan itself
• ex. record player. Slowing down doesn’t change the song

Question 15

[juggling] Why would a combination of both mental and physical practice be more beneficial to a learner than just one or the other?

Answer 15

• Confidence booster: can do anything in your head
• Good tool to help focus the learner
• Fatigue. Some of the things we do can be physically fatiguing

Question 16

[guitar hero] What are the benefits of using games as simulation?

Answer 16

• engagement/motivation

- can help with some concepts if fidelity is similar