Skill Acquisition Flashcards
What is in the difficulty specification of skills?
Simple-Complex
What is in the environmental influence specification?
Open-Closed
What is in the pacing specification?
Self paced-Externally paced
What is in the Muscular involvement specification?
Gross-Fine
What is in the continuity specification?
Discrete-Serial-Continuous
What is in the organisation specification?
High-low organisation
What is a complex skill?
A skill that has many decisions to be made, and is learned in stages.
What is a simple skill?
Straightforward skill with little to no decisions to be made, and it can be taught as a whole skill repetitively.
Whats a practical example of a complex skill?
Pass made in football with lots of surrounding decisions to make.
Whats a practical example of a simple skill?
A sprint start in swimming as there’s very few decisions to be made.
What’s an open skill?
A skill that can be affected by the environment
What’s a closed skill?
A skill that’s not affected by the environment
What’s a practical example of a open skill?
Dribbling in football
What’s a practical example of a closed skill?
A free throw in basketball
What are self paced skills? What’s an example?
Performer controls rate at which skill is performed. E.g Javelin
