Skill
Skill
Skill
Skill
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100

What are 4 key factors that can affect variation of skill?

Age and maturity

Arousal conditions

Facilities

Environment

Teaching and coaching

Anxiety

Motivation

Culture

100

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

100

What kind of feedback is this player receiving?


Extrinsic feedback

or 


negative feedback


100

At what stage in the information processing model would the brain send a message to the muscles?

Output

100

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

200

What are 3 characteristics that determine a skillful athlete?

Accurate

Consistent

Fluent

Coordinated

Aesthetically pleasing

Goal directed


200

What is the single channel hypothesis?

The theory that the brain can only deal with one stimuli at a time

200

What type of guidance is shown in this picture


manual

200

The long jump is what type of skill?

closed and gross
200

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')

300

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. 

300

In the simple information processing model what is the correct order of events

Input - decision making - output - feedback

300

What type of guidance does this picture show?


Mechanical

300
Skills can be basic or....?
complex
300

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

400

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. 

400


Which stage of the decision making process is shown here?

Output

400

What is the form of guidance in the form of images?

visual

400

A skill that can be affected by the environment is...

open

400

how many skill classification continuums are there?

3

fine gross

basic complex

open closed

500

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. 

500

What is the final stage of learning called?

autonomous

500

At the cognitive stage of learning how often would a beginner make mistakes?

very often

500

Archery is a good example of a fine skill, true or false

true

500

Who is Mr. McPhees favorite NBA Team

Toronto Raptors