What are 4 key factors that can affect variation of skill?
Age and maturity
Arousal conditions
Facilities
Environment
Teaching and coaching
Anxiety
Motivation
Culture
What is 'the idea that our brains can only process a certain amount of information at once; too much information results in overload
Limited Channel Capacity
What kind of feedback is this player receiving?
Extrinsic feedback
ornegative feedback
At what stage in the information processing model would the brain send a message to the muscles?
Output
Explain the acronym RICE.
Rest - stop the activity and prevent further injury
Ice - apply an ice pack to minimise pain and swelling
Compression - wrap the area with compression to decrease swelling
Elevation - keep the injury above heart level to reduce swelling
What are 3 characteristics that determine a skillful athlete?
Accurate
Consistent
Fluent
Coordinated
Aesthetically pleasing
Goal directed
What is the single channel hypothesis?
The theory that the brain can only deal with one stimuli at a time
What type of guidance is shown in this picture
manual
The long jump is what type of skill?
Discuss the four types of feedback.
Intrinsic - information that comes from within (thoughts and feelings)
Extrinsic - information that comes from an external source (coach, teacher)
Knowledge of results - knowing the score, distance, time, allows you to measure how you have done
Knowledge of performance - analysing the quality of your movement or technique (felt good or 'clean')
Discuss the difference between a fine and gross skill?
Fine - precise levels of skills that require high levels of accuracy and technique.
Gross - movements that use large muscle groups to produce big, powerful movements.
In the simple information processing model what is the correct order of events
Input - decision making - output - feedback
What type of guidance does this picture show?
Mechanical
What are the four types of guidance?
Visual - in the form of images
Verbal - in the form of words
Manual - 'hands on', guiding you through a golf swing
Mechanical - guidance on how to use the physical support such as a harness
Give a brief summary of the four stages of the information-processing model.
Input - information received
Decision-making - information analysed, stored in Short-Term Memory (STM) and after repeated trials can be stored in Long-Term Memory (LTM)
Output - decision is made and then acted upon
Feedback - Intrinsic and extrinsic feedback allows you to determine what was good or bad about the performance.
Which stage of the decision making process is shown here?
Output
What is the form of guidance in the form of images?
visual
A skill that can be affected by the environment is...
open
how many skill classification continuums are there?
3
fine gross
basic complex
open closed
Discuss the three stages of learning.
Cognitive - learn new skills, lots of errors
Associative - practice skills, decrease number of errors as skill improves
Autonomous - mistakes are rare and you can analyse your errors.
What is the final stage of learning called?
autonomous
At the cognitive stage of learning how often would a beginner make mistakes?
very often
Archery is a good example of a fine skill, true or false
true
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