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Skills and Continuums
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- 1Define the term skillThis is a learned behaviour to bring about pre-determined results with maximum certainly often with the minimum outlay of time, energy or both as a result of evaluating information and decision making.
- 2Name all of the characteristics of a skillLucky - Learned
Cats - Consistent
Get - Goal directed
A - Aesthetically pleasing
Fish - Fluent
Every - Economical
Saturday - Smooth
Evening - Efficient - 3What are the four types of skill?Motor skills
Cognitive skills
Perceptual skills
Psychomotor skills - 4What are motor skills?These involves movement and muscular control
- 5Give an example of a motor skillPerforming a cartwheel in gymnastics
- 6What are cognitive skills?These involve thinking and thought processing
- 7Give an example of a cognitive skillIn badminton, a player thinks tactically and plays a long overhead clear to drive the opponent to the back of the court, followed by a drop shot
- 8What are perceptual skills?They involve the detection and interpretation of information
- 9Give an example of perceptual skillsA goalkeeper in netball judges the flight of a lob pass coming into the circle and intercept it
- 10What are psychomotor skills?These involve the processing of information quickly and putting decisions into action
- 11Give an example of psychomotor skillsIn football, a defender sees an attacker about to make a run into space and reacts quickly to track back to block any passes to him/her
- 12What is the difference between skills and abilities?Abilities are innate (they're genetically determined whereas a skill is learned) and stable and long lasting (whereas skills can be developed and change over time). They are also the foundations of skills (you need ability to perform a skill)
- 13What are the two types of ability?Gross motor abilities
Perceptual or psychomotor abilities - 14What are gross motor abilities?These involve physical movements. They are a series of genetically inherited traits that relate to physical fitness and include speed, strength, stamina and flexibility
- 15What are perceptual or psychomotor skills?These involve sensing, interpreting and processing information - the ability to make a judgement and put it into action
- 16What are the perceptual abilities that allow us to process information in the display?Speed of perception (how fast you can compare the various elements in the display)
Being able to divide your attention between more than one part of the display (more than one attacker perhaps)
Analysing movement (other objects such as a ball) within the display and predicting future movements or positions
Selection (filtering out unwanted, unnecessary or irrelevant pieces of information from the display - 17What is a continuum?This is an imaginary sliding scale on which skills can be placed between two extremes to show a gradual increase or decrease in characteristic
- 18What can continuum be used for?To classify skills and to develop knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of skills.
This useful in structuring practises when taking on the role of a leader or coach. - 19How can classification be useful?It can help us to teach, practise and improve skills in the most efficient way
- 20Explain the open to closed continuumOpen skills are affected by the surrounding environment, which is constantly changing. The performer must adapt to these changes.
Closed skills are not affected by the environment. They can be practised in a stable environment and therefore become habitual. - 21Explain the discrete to continuous continuumDiscrete skills have a distinct beginning and ending. The performer has to start the skill before beginning to repeat it.
Serial skills are made up of a number of discrete elements, which are combined in a particular order to form a more continuous task. Each part can be practised separately.
Continuous skills have no distinct beginning or end. The skill is often cyclic - the end of one part of the movement becomes the beginning of the next. - 22Explain the gross to fine continuumGross skills involve larger movements of larger muscular groups
Fine skills involve smaller movements of smaller muscular groups - 23Explain the self paced to externally paced continuumIn self paced movements, the performer controls the timing, speed and rate of execution of the skill.
If a movement is externally paced, the timing, speed and rate of execution of the skill are determined by the environment.
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- AS - Level Sport (Skill Acquisition ) Flashcards on Skills and Continuums, created by Tom Baker on 12/04/2016.
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- Tom Baker · Apr 2016
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