SKILL ACQUISITION (PART4)

Question 1

Classification?

Answer 1

Allows us to analyse a skill on scale or continium.

Question 2

Name the different categories of classification?

Answer 2

Difficulty
Environmental influence
Pacing
Muscular involvement
Continuity
Organisation
Task analysis
Practice and Open/Closed skills
Practice and discrete/serial/continuous skills

Question 3

What are the factors effecting these categories?

Answer 3

How precise a movement is.
movements definite begining or end
The effect of the envirnment on performance of a skill

Question 4

what is Difficulty?

Answer 4

Allows you to make the judgment of how complex or simple a skill is depending on the judgment and decision making involved in it, to perform the skill.

Question 5

what is a complex skill?

Answer 5

Complex skill is when there are many decision making involved and has to be learned in stages.

Question 6

What is a simple skill?

Answer 6

A skill is known as simple skill when there are less to non decision making involved, so it can be taught as whole in fairly repetitive way.

Question 7

Give a practical example of complex skill.

Answer 7

A midfielder in football when passing the ball well have to make lots of decision and judgments.

Question 8

Give a practical example of simple skill.

Answer 8

A sprint start in swimming as there are few decision to be made.

Question 9

What is Environmental influence?

Answer 9

The effect of environment on perform a skill.

Question 10

what is a open skill?

Answer 10

is effected by the environment therefore predominantly perceptual and and constantly needs adapting to the environment.
Externally paced.

Question 11

what is a closed skill?

Answer 11

Is not effected by the environment, predominantly habitual and follows set pattern.
has definite end and beginning
Mostly self-paced.

Question 12

Give a practical example of open skill.

Answer 12

A tennis serve has elements of set pattern, due to it , it predominantly closed than open. And it can be open til certain extent e.g.when the opponent serve’s there are some adjustments needed to return.

Question 13

what is Pacing?

Answer 13

is when a performer’s skill speed is controlled by them or by an opponent.
TPYES of pacing; Self paced skill, Externally paced skill.

Question 14

What is self paced skill?example

Answer 14

is when the performer control’s the rate at which they execute a skill, involves proaction.
EXAMPLE: Javelin throw.

Question 15

what is externally paced skill? example

Answer 15

is when the performer’s rate at which they execute the skill is controlled by the opponent or environment. Is reaction based and example; receiving a serve in badminton.

Question 16

What is muscular involvement?

Answer 16

Is the precision or the force at which a performer execute’s a skill.
type; GROSS, FINE

Question 17

What is gross skill?example

Answer 17

A gross skill involves large muscular movements, not very precise, includes many fundamental movements e.g. walking, running, jumping,
Example; shot put throw.

Question 18

what is fine skill?example

Answer 18

is intricate movements using small muscles groups to be precise and uses high degree of hand-eyes coordination’s.
Example;Dart throwing.

Question 19

What is continuity?

Answer 19

Concerns with how well defined the beginning and end of skill are.

Question 20

what is Discrete skill?

Answer 20

have a clear biginning and clear end, the skill can be repeated but the perform has to start again.
Example; free throw in basketball

Question 21

what is Serial skill?

Answer 21

has several discrete elements to it which are put together in a sequence of movement.
Example;triple jump

Question 22

What is continuous skill?

Answer 22

has no obvious beginning and the end of one cycle of movement leads to another one.
Example; cycling or long distance running.