Sports Psychology

Question 1

What is a skill

Answer 1

A learned, coordinated activity which achieves a goal a goal

Question 2

Describe fine motor skills

Answer 2

Skills that require greater precision in the control of small muscles such as throwing a dart

Question 3

Describe gross motor skills

Answer 3

Involve movements of large parts of the body or of the whole body, they also require less precision. For example tackling in football

Question 4

What is an open skill

Answer 4

A skill that is effected by the environment

Question 5

What is a closed skill

Answer 5

A skill that is not affected by the environment

Question 6

What is a self ( internally) paced skill

Answer 6

Performer controls the speed , timing and rate at which the skill is performed at

Question 7

What is an externally paced skill

Answer 7

The performer does not control the rate of the skill. Often involves the reaction of the performer

Question 8

What is a simple skill

Answer 8

Small amount of information to be processed
Few decisions to be made
Eg swimming or running

Question 9

What is a complex skill

Answer 9

Large amounts of information to be processed

Number of decisions to be made quickly

Question 10

What happens in the input stage of information processing

Answer 10

The data is received from the environment. This information will be received by the performers senses - usually sight
Use selective attention to filter the irrelevant information and select the relevant

Question 11

What happens in the decision making stage

Answer 11

The performer decided on the appropriate response based on last experience
Info is stored in a performer’s “𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭-𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲” to start with. S-TM can store about 𝟕 pieces of information for 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟔𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬. If information is rehearsed, it can be stored in the performer’s “𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲”. If it not rehearsed, then it is lost.

Question 12

What happens in the output stage

Answer 12

The appropriate decision is now acted upon

Information is sent from the performer’s brain to the working muscles to produce a “𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞”.

Question 13

What happens in the feedback stage

Answer 13

2 types of feed back - intrinsic and extrinsic
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 = received from the performer themselves, from thoughts/emotions

𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 = received from outside the performer. Can come from many sources, including a coach, spectators and from video replay.