Skill Acquisition - Types And Methods Of Practice

Question 1

What is the part method?

Answer 1

Breaking the skill up into parts
- used for low organisation skills that can be split into sub routines
- can be used for complex skills, allows the performer to make sense of the skill and achieve the basic movement
- it can be useful for learning a dangerous skill
- the performer gains confidence by learning each element separately then brining it all together

Question 2

What is the whole method?

Question 3

What is the whole-part-whole method?

Question 4

What is the progressive-part method?

Question 5

What is massed practice?

Question 6

What is distributed practice?

Question 7

What is fixed practice?

Question 8

What is varied practice?

Question 9

Evaluate massed practice

Question 10

Evaluate distributed practice

Question 11

In the part method what is fractionation, segmentation and simplification?

Answer 11

Fractionation - it involves practising the separate sub-routines of the whole skill.
Segmentation - involves splitting the skill into part then progressively practicing.
Simplification - involves reducing the difficulty of the subroutines of the skill.