Refers to mental processing of information, thinking and understanding.
What is cognitive?
Require the use of only small muscle groups to perform the movement.
What are fine motor skills?
Is a judgement about the quality of something or somebody.
What is appraisal?
Feedback is received during the performance of a skill.
What is concurrent?
Means being in full control of actions so they become automatic.
What is autonomous?
Is sharpness.
What is acuity?
Is a person’s body type or shape (ectomorphic, mesomorphic or endomorphic).
What is a somatotype?
Is applied when a skill is practised in its entirety.
What is whole practice
Refers to genetic characteristics inherited from our parents.
What is heredity?
Is information about the outcome of a movement.
What is knowledge of results?
Refers to the degree of consistency of a test
What is reliability?
Means connecting or linking ideas.
What is associative?
Involves a broken practice session, with the intervals of rest or alternative activities being longer than the practice intervals.
What is distributed practice?
Have a distinctive beginning and end that can be identified.
What are discrete skills?
Is the information provided to the learner about the nature or result of their performance.
What is feedback?
Refers to the system of sensitivity that exists in the muscles and their attachments.
What is kinaesthesis (or kinaesthetic sense?
Is gaining possession of something.
What is acquisition?
Occurs as a normal consequence of performing a skill. It embodies feelings, together with sensory information such as seeing the ball and hearing the sound of a ball hitting the bat.
What is internal feedback?
Are the preconceived ideas or expectations that an individual brings to judge a performance.
What is personal criteria?
Is applied when a skill is broken into smaller components and each discrete subskill (subroutine) is practised separately.
What is part practice?