Skill Types
Skill Classifications
Wild Card
Skill, Ability, and Technique
Information Processing
100

Name one of the 4 Skill Types

What is Cognitive, Perceptual, Motor, Perceptual Motor?

100

Name one of the 5 types of Skill Classifications

What is Discrete, Serial, Continuous, Open, Closed

100

Bernoulli's Principle involves the flow of what?

What is a "Fluid"?

100

Technique Definition

What is "The way in which a sport skill is performed"?

100

Stimulus Definition

What is "Information that stands out, that a person pays attention to"?

200

Motor Skill Definition

What is Physical Movement (running, throwing, catching)?

200

Discrete Skill Definition

What is "Have a clear start and finish (golf swing, forward roll in gymnastics)"?

200

What is Hick's Law?

A. There is an increase in reaction time with increased number of choices.

B. There is a decrease in reaction time with increased number of choices.

C. There is an increase in movement time with increased number of choices.

D. There is a decrease in movement time with increased number of choices.

A. There is an increase in reaction time with increased number of choices.

200

State one of the two types of abilities

What is "Perceptual Motor Ability (processing information, making decisions, and putting them into action)", or "Physical Proficiency Abilities (physical fitness abilities)"?

200

Stimulus Identification Definition

What is "Deciding if a Stimulus has happened"?

300

Cognitive Skill Definition

What is Using the Brain and Thinking (outwitting an opponent, calculating scores)?

300

Continuous Skill Definition

What is "Have no clear beginning or end (swimming, running, cycling)"?

300

What is the average capacity of short-term memory?

A: 1 bit of information

B. 2 + 7 bits of information

C. 7 + 2 bits of information

D. Unlimited

C. 7 + 2 bits of information

300

What are 2 of the 4 attributes associated with being a Skilled Performer?

What is "Consistency, Accuracy, Control, and Efficiency"?

300

Response Selection Definition

What is "Deciding what to do with the information you've received (after a stimulus has been identified)"?

400

Perceptual Skill Definition

What is Interpreting Stimuli (reading the green in golf, doubles tennis player listening to their partner)?

400

Serial Skill Definition

What is "Skills are linked together to form a more complex movement (triple jump)"?

400

Why are yellow balls used in tennis?

A: To increase signal intensity

B: To limit background noise

C: To improve the efficiency of sense organs

D: To improve memory retrieval

A: To increase signal intensity

400

What is the relationship between skill, ability, and technique?

A: Skill = Ability + Technique

B: Technique = Ability + Skill

C: Skill = Ability * Technique

D: Technique = Ability - Skill

What is "A: Skill = Ability + technique"?


400

Response Programming Definition

What is "The brain receives the decision about which movement to make, and organizes the motor system (muscles and nerves) to do it"?

(Ex: Sends out messages by nerves to the relevant muscles to move in the decided direction)

500

Perceptual-Motor Skill Definition

What is Interpretation of Environmental Stimuli and the Motor Response to this Information (dribbling the ball soccer to beat an opponent)?

500

"Open Skill" AND "Closed Skill" Definition

What is "Take place in a constantly changing environment (and are consequently effected by it)" AND "Take place in a fixed environment"?

500

What are Newton's 3 Laws of Motion?

What is "An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force, An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force", "🔺Force = Mass * Acceleration", and "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?

500

Differentiate a Skill from an Ability

What is "A skill is something you learn, while an ability is something you are born with"?

500

State the 3 stages of Information Processing (Input, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Output)

What is "Stimulus Identification, Response Selection, Response Programming"?

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