Sports Psychology Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is a skill?
An organised, co-ordinated acivity in relation to an object or situation which involves a whole chain of sensor central and motor mechanisms
What are features of a skill?
Learned + developed
Can improve / deteriorate
Consists of subroutines
What is a motor programme?
A series of subroutines organised into the correct sequence to perform a movement
What are sub routines?
Fixed/individual parts that make up a skill
What are the six skill continua?
Continuity
Environment
Muscular Involvement
Pacing
Organisation
Difficulty
What goes on the continuity coninuum?
Discrete——-Serial——-Continuous
What are the features of a discrete skill? give examples
Has a definite beginning and end
Usually brief in nature and a single skill
To repeat skill, has to be restarted
E.g A penalty in football
What are the features of a serial skill?
number of discrete skills put together in a sequence or series
Order is important
E.g Triple Jump
What are the features of a continuous skill?
No clear beginning or end
Usually performed over prolonged period of time
E.G running/swimming
What goes on the environment continuum?
Open———Closed
What are the features of an open skill?
Environment is changing and others can effect skill
E.g dribbling in football
What are the features of a closed skill?
Not affected by environment
Stable and predictable
E.g Diving
What goes on the muscular involvement continuum?
Gross———Fine
What are the features of a gross skill?
Involves large muscle groups
Large movements
E.g kicking a football
What are the features of a fine skill?
Small Muscle groups
Small movements
E.g Positioning hands for set in volleyball or Pointing toes in gymnastics
What goes on the pacing continuum?
Self Paced————Externally paced
Give features of an externally paced skill
Performance of action is often determined by external sources
E.g cricket shot, dribbling in football, tackle in rugby
Give features of a self paced skill
Performer decides when to perform or start skill
E.g Diving/Darts/Snooker
What goes on the organisation continuum?
Low ———– High
What are features of a low organisation skill?
Sub routines can be easily identified and practiced in isolation
E.g Long jump
What are features of a high organisation skill?
Skill cannot be split into sub routines and has to be practiced as whole movement
E.g Cycling, running
What goes on the difficulty continuum?
Simple——-Complex
Give characteristics of a simple skill
Little information/stimuli to process
Few decisions to make
Few subroutines
E.G running,swimming
Give characteristics of a complex skill
Large amounts of info to process, less time to use feedback and many sub routines to perform
E.G Tennis serve, Cricket shots, Golf swings
