Sports Psychology

Sports Psychology

1. types of skills

   • closed skill is when you have control over what will happen when you perform the skill. no factors will be able to change it.
   • open skill is one where you have no control over how you will have to perform the skill as others performance and the evironment can affect the skill.
   • basic skill is one that is easy to do and doesnt take much concentration to perform.
   • complex skill is one that is difficult and takes more concentration to perform.
   • low organisations skill is when it can be broken down and practiced seperately.
   • high organisation is a skill that cannot be broken down into phrases.

2. types of feedback

   • visual feedback is when you watch the skill being taken place or see a video of yourself.
   • verbal feedback is when your coach tells you what you can do to improve toy performance or skill.
   • intrinsic feedback is when you recieve information from your senses that the skill has taken place.
   • extrinsic feedback is feedback given by another person such as a coach or teacher.
   • concurrent feedback is recived during the movement being performed.
   • terminal feedback is received after the session has been completed.

3. types of guidance

   • mechanical guidance is when you feel what a good performance should feel like
   • manual guidance is the coach moves with you through a movement so that they know how it feels.

4. types of practice

   • fixed practice is when a specific movement is repeated until it has been mastered.
   • massed practice is when there is no rest between the sessions
   • distributed practice is when you learn a skill overtime with breaks in between
   • variable practice is when the situation keeps changing so the training is in that manner.