Skills of acquisition

Question 1

what are open skills?

Answer 1

Skills that are affected by the environment, may require the performer to adapt, can be externally paced and require decisions to be made

Question 2

Examples of open skills

Answer 2

Attackers, defenders, weather, time

Question 3

What are closed skills

Answer 3

Skills that aren’t affected by the environment, habitual, involve a set movement and tends to be self paced

Question 4

Examples of closed skills

Answer 4

Golf swing. start of a run, trampolining

Question 5

What are gross skills?

Answer 5

Involve large muscle groups, little concern for precision, may nvoleve fundamental movements of walking

Question 6

Examples pf gross skills

Answer 6

Rugby tackle, jumping, walking and running

Question 7

What are fine skills?

Answer 7

Involves smaller muscle groups and involve accuracy and emphasise hand coordination

Question 8

examples of fine skills?

Answer 8

Badminton serve, snooker shot, putting in golf

Question 9

What are discrete skills?

Answer 9

Have a clear beginning and end, repeatable, but performer must stop and start again. single and specific

Question 10

Examples of discrete skills

Answer 10

Tennis start, shot put, javelin throw and somersaults

Question 11

Whats a serial skill?

Answer 11

Movement skills that have a number of discrete elements put together in a definite order to make a movement or sequence. ( a group of discrete skills)

Question 12

Examples of serial skills?

Answer 12

Bowling in cricket, kick in football, ballet dancer and boxing punch and combination

Question 13

Whats a continuous skill?

Answer 13

Movements with no clear beginning or end, the end of one cycle of movement is the beginning of the next. Involves repletion of the same movement to make sense.

Question 14

Examples of a continuous skill

Answer 14

Swimming front Crawl, jogging, skipping and walking

Question 15

What are self paced skills?

Answer 15

Performer controls the rate at which the skill is executed and normally proactive. Closed skills

Question 16

Examples of self paced skills

Answer 16

Tennis match serve, corner kick, golf swing and javelin

Question 17

What are externally paced skills

Answer 17

The environment controls the rate at which the skill is performed, reactive and open skill

Question 18

Examples of externally paced skills

Answer 18

Iceskating, dancing, aerobics and gymnastics

Question 19

What is a simple skill

Answer 19

Few decisions to be made, usually/ taught or learnt. may be repetitive in nature

Question 20

Examples of simple skills

Answer 20

throwing, running, catching, jumping

Question 21

What is a complex skill

Answer 21

A skill that a lot of decision are to be made, normally have to be learnt in stages

Question 22

Examples of a complex skill

Answer 22

Serving in tennis, throwing discus, vault in gymnastics, lay up shot in basketball

Question 23

What is a low organisation skill

Answer 23

made up of sub routines that can be easily separated by themselves and practiced

Question 24

examples of low organisation skills

Answer 24

conversion kicks, penalties

Question 25

what is a high organisation skill?

Answer 25

Nit easily broken down in sub routines, difficult to separate without disrupting skills. Practiced as a whole

Question 26

Examples of a high organisation skill?

Answer 26

Golf swing, high jump, breast stroke, running

Question 27

What are the 6 classification of skill continua?

Answer 27

Environmental influences Musucular involvement Pacing Organisation Difficulty Continuity

Question 28

What are the extremes of each of the 6 continua?

Answer 28

``` Open/closed Gross/fine High/low organisation Externallu/internally Simple/complex Discrete/serial/continous ```

Question 29

What is a practical example of an open skill?

Answer 29

Passing a football, dribbling in hockey

Question 30

What is a practical example of a closed skill?

Answer 30

Gymnastic vault, archery (not affected by environment)- habitual, self paced

Question 31

What is an example of a self paced skilL?

Answer 31

High jump, penalty in football (normally closed)

Question 32

What is an example of an externally paced skill?

Answer 32

Rugby tackle, passing in netball- environment dictates, usually open

Question 33

What is an example of a gross skill?

Answer 33

Rugby tackle, weight lifting

Question 34

What is an example of a fine skill?

Answer 34

Archery, shooting, darts

Question 35

What is an example of a discrete skill?

Answer 35

Rugby pass- clear beginning and end

Question 36

What is an example of a serial skill?

Answer 36

Triple jump, basketball lay up

Question 37

What is an example of a continuous skill?

Answer 37

Cycling, no clear beginning and end

Question 38

What is an example of a high organisation?

Answer 38

Forward roll, badminton serve (can't easily be broken down int sub routines)

Question 39

What is an example of low organisation skills?

Answer 39

Front crawl, tennis serve- can easily be broken down into sub routines

Question 40

What is an example of a simple skill?

Answer 40

100m sprint- little decisions to be made

Question 41

What is an example of a complex skill?

Answer 41

Passing in netball/hockey

Question 42

What is a task analysis?

Answer 42

``` When a coach places one skill on the six continua to see how they can teach the skill front crawl ei- closed mi- gross p-self paced (except for start) C- Continous o- low d-simple ```

Question 43

How could the front crawl coach use the 6 continua as an analysis?

Answer 43

As it is a continous skill, distributed practice is best Closed- coach should use a fixed practice environment Gross- power rather than accuracy Low org- can be broken down into part praxtice0 whole any (reduce complexity for beginners) Simple- little dsicions so coach knows can give more info without overloading learner