Unit 5: Skill in sports Flashcards
Define the term skill
Skill is the consistent production of goal-oriented
movements, which are learned and specific to the
task. Requires certain type of abilities.
State the relationship between ability, skill and
technique
Skill = Ability + selection of correct technique
Discuss the differences between a skilled and a
novice performer (7 points)
To perform something:
- Effortlessly learned
- Accurate
- Controlled
- With fluent movements
- Clear goal-oriented –> no additional responses
- Energy efficient
- Consistently
Define the term technique
The way in which a sport skill is performed
Define the term ability
Ability refers to a general trait or capacity of the
individual that is related to the performance and
performance potential of a variety of skills or tasks.
Describe the different types of skill in regard to MOVEMENT
- Motor: emphasizes movement and not
thinking - Perceptual: includes using the senses to
read a situation, how well you anticipate something - Perceptual motor: Interpretation of external stimuli and following with a motor response
- Cognitive: Emphasizes thinking and decision-making with NO movement
What type of skill (regarding movement) are weightlifting, sprinting and racing?
Motor skills
What type of skill (regarding movement) are golf green reading or rock climbing wall reading?
Perceptual skills
What type of skill (regarding movement and effect of other player or element) is dribbling around an opponent?
Perceptual motor skill and open
What type of skill (regarding movement) is chess or pre-game planning?
Cognitive skills
Outline the different
approaches to classifying
motor skills
Number of muscles used:
1. Gross: involve large muscle groups
2. Fine: involve smaller muscle groups
Affected by another player or element:
1. Open (external paced): can’t predict what’ll happen, as environmental conditions impact it
2. Closed (internally paced): predictable environment
Number of competitors:
1. Individual: athlete performs in isolation
2. Coactive: performed with someone else but with
no direct confrontation or interaction
3. Interactive: performed in direct
confrontation with others
Nature of the movement:
1. Discrete: clear start and finish, 1 execution
2. Serial: linking together skills to form a
complex one, steps
3. Continuous: repetitive, rhythmical, takes place
over a long period of time
What type of skill (regarding number of muscles used) are jumping or running?
Gross skills
What type of skill (regarding number of muscles used) are catching, darts and piano?
Fine skills
What type of skill (affected by another player or element and by number of competitors) is archery?
Closed and individual skill
What type of skill (affected by number of competitors) is high jump?
Individual skill
What type of skill (affected by number of competitors) are swimming and the 100 meter sprint?
Coactive skill
What type of skill (affected by number of competitors) are rugby, football and water
polo?
Interactive skill
What type of skill (regarding nature of the movement) are a penalti shot and gymnastics roll?
Discrete skill
What type of skill (regarding nature of the movement) is a triple jump?
Serial skill
What type of skill (regarding nature of the movement) is cycling and running?
Continous skill
Distinguish between Fleishman’s physical
proficiency abilities and perceptual motor abilities
Physical proficiency abilities:
1. Physical factors
2. Flexibility
3. Strength
4. Stamina
5. Balance
6. Coordination
Perceptual motor abilities:
1. Psychomotor factors
2. Manual dexterity
4. Reaction time
5. Aiming
6. Response orientation
7. Control precision
Describe a simple model of
information processing.
Information processing is the system by which we take information from our surrounding environment, use it to make a decision and then produce a response: (input – decision-making – output)
All the approaches are only models. Input and output are assessable/observable, but the decision-making process can only be speculation.
What is the purpose of Welford’s model?
A model that explains the different steps that go on in your brain and body to be able to process the information.
Outline the components associated with sensory
input
- Exteroceptors: detects changes from the outside world, through senses
- Proprioceptors: provides information about position of limbs, allows you to feel your body, like muscles and tendons
- Interoceptors: detects internal changes within body, like chemoreceptors, baroreceptors
Explain the signal-detection process (5 points)
Also referred to as the detection–comparison–
recognition process (DCR). It states that the probability of detecting a signal depends on:
- Background noise (a lot of stimulus)
- Intensity of the stimulus
- Efficiency of the sense organs (due to discapacity or pain)
- Early and improving signal detection, or level of arousal
Definition and purpose of selective attention
Consciously trying to focus to filter information that we need and don’t need. Discarding alternative stimuli to avoid burnout or overload.
What is retrieval capacity?
The ability to access information when you need it, remembering