Characteristics of Skill
The consistent production of goal-oriented movements, which are learned and specific to the task.
What is skill?
These skills have a clear start and finish.
What are discrete skills?
AKA the "black box"
A relatively permanent change in performance brought about by experience.
What is learning?
What law states that the more options there are, the longer it takes to make a decision.
What is "Hick's Law"?
This is necessary if a person is to be proficient in a skill.
What is practice?
These skills are a complex movement formed by the linking of several skills.
What are serial skills?
These receptors provide information from outside of the body (like vision and hearing).
What are exteroreceptors?
In this phase of learning, the individual tries to make sense of instructions and they use a lot of verbal labels to aid memory.
What is the cognitive phase?
A set of movements as a whole in the memory, regardless of whether feedback is used during their execution.
What is a motor programme?
The opposite of skill
What is luck?
These skills are repetitive and rhythmic. They don't end until a distance, target, or set time is reached.
What are continuous skills?
What is the term for background, non-essential information, that must be filtered out during information processing?
What is "noise"?
What is the associative phase of learning?
All incoming information is held here for a brief time. Most information is lost in 0.5 seconds.
What is the STSS?
A type of skill that emphasizes movement and does not require much thinking.
What is a motor skill?
These skills are performed the same way each time and in a stable and predictable environment.
What are closed motor skills?
In Welford's Model of information processing, he stated that the likelihood of detecting a signal depends on these two variables.
What are d' and C?
At this phase of learning, the individual can perform consistently and with little overt cognitive ability.
What is the autonomous phase of learning?
Feedback that is post-response information concerning the nature of the movement.
What is Knowledge of Performance (KP)?
The type of skill that athletes use to make decisions based on the assessment of the environment. It requires the use of all 5 senses.
What is a perceptual skill?
The general trait or capacity of an individual that is related to the performance and performance potential of a variety of skills or tasks.
What is an ability?
Welford notices that participants cannot respond to signal #2 until signal #1 is completely processed. What is the term for this?
What is the psychological refractory period?
AKA: Drills
What is "Fixed practice"?
The effect that practice in one task has on the learning or performance of another task.
What is transfer of training?