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What are the characteristics of skill?

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Accurate
Controlled
Economical

Fluent
Aesthetically pleasing
Consistent
Efficient

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What does the characteristic ‘Accurate’ of skill mean?

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Skill achieves a predetermined goal

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What does the characteristic ‘Controlled’ of skill mean?

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The performer has control over movement, well co-ordinated movement

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What does the characteristic ‘Economical’ of skill mean?

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The skill requires minimal outlay of energy

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What does the characteristic ‘Fluent’ of skill mean?

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The action is smooth and flowing

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What does the characteristic ‘Aesthetically pleasing’ of skill mean?

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The skill looks good

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What does the characteristic ‘Consistant’ of skill mean?

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The repeated success, very few mistakes

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What does the characteristic ‘Efficient’ of skill mean?

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There is no waste of energy and the movement seems effortless

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What is the definition of skill?

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‘The learned ability to bring about predetermined results with maximum certainty, often with the minimum outlay of time or energy or both’

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What are the 6 different classifications of skills?

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Simple and Complex
Open and Closed
Self-paced and Externally-paced
Gross and Fine
Discrete, Serial and Continuous
High and Low

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What are the characteristics of an open skill?

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  • Affected by the environment
  • Predominantly perceptual
  • Movements must be adapted
  • Most are externally paced
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What is an example of an open skill?

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A tennis serve

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What are the characteristics of a closed skill?

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  • Not affected by the environment
  • Predominantly habitual
  • Set movements
  • Self paced
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What is an example of a closed skill?

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A javelin throw

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What are the characteristics of a gross skill?

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  • Major body movements involving large muscle groups
  • Associated with strength, power and endurance
  • Little fine control required
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What is an example of a gross skill?

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A tennis serve

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What are the characteristics of a fine skill?

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  • Intricate, fine movements using small muscle groups
  • Associated with accuracy and precision
  • Requires good hand-eye co-ordination
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What is an example of a fine skill?

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A dart throw

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What are the characteristics of a self-paced skill?

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  • Performer has control over the rate at which the skill is carried out
  • Involved pro-action by the performer
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What is an example of a self-paced skill?

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Tennis serve

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What are the characteristics of an externally-paced skill?

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  • Performer has no control over the rate at which the skill is carried out
  • Involved reaction by the performer
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What is an example of an externally-paced skill?

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A rugby tackle

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What are the characteristics of a discrete skill?

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  • Clear start/end
  • Skills can be repeated but the performer starts again
  • Single specific skill
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What is an example of a discrete skill?

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What are the characteristics of a serial skill?
- Several discrete elements are put together to make integrated movement/sequence - The order of the elements are important
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What is an example of a serial skill?
Triple jump
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What are the characteristics of a continuous skill?
- No obvious start/end - Continues for as long as the performer wishes - The end of one cycle is the beginning of the next - No clear sub routines
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What is an example of a continuous skill?
Running
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What are the characteristics of a high skill?
- Skill is not easily broken down into parts - The action is very quick and the subroutines merge quickly as the skill is performed - Best practiced as a whole
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What is an example of a high skill?
A kick in football
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What are the characteristics of a low skill?
- Sub-routines tend to be discrete - Best practised separately and then integrated into the whole skill - Can be learnt/practiced using part method
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What is an example of a low skill?
A swimming stroke
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What are the characteristics of a simple skill?
- Small amounts of info to be processed - Few decisions to be made
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What is an example of a simple skill?
A forward roll
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What are the characteristics of a complex skill?
- Large amount of info to be processed - A number of decisions to be made quickly - A high number of sub-routines that need to be performed quickly and accurately - Feedback is available
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What is an example of a complex skill?
Rugby tackle
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What are the 4 transfers of learning?
Positive Negative Zero Bilateral
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What is a transfer?
The influence of one skill on the performance of another
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How does positive transfer impact skill development?
It occurs when learning in one task is enhanced by the learning in another task
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What is an example of a positive transfer?
Learning a golf stroke - enhanced by virtue of the fact that the player is a good cricketer
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How does negative transfer impact skill development?
It occurs when the learning of a new task is interfered with by the knowledge of another activity
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What is an example of negative transfer?
The flexible use of the wrist needed for badminton may interfere with the firm wrist needed for tennis
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How does zero transfer impact skill development?
No transfer at all may occur even between skills which appear to be similar
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What is an example of zero transfer?
Learning at squash may have zero transfer from weight training
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How does bilateral transfer impact skill development?
It takes place from one side to another and is sometimes called lateralisation
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What is an example of bilateral transfer?
A footballer learning to pass with their left foot when they have previously learned this skill with their right foot
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What are cognitive skills and what's an example?
Skills that require the use of a person's mental powers Example: putting topspin on a tennis ball
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What are motor skills and what's an example?
Skills that involve physical movements and muscular control linked to a specific objective Example: a golf swing
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What are perceptual skills?
Where you interpret and make sense of the information coming in via senses
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What are psycho-motor skills and what's an example?
The co-ordination and smooth execution and movements and responses Example: catching a pass in netball

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