Training, Skills - SKILL ACQUISITION

Question 1

What is an ability

Answer 1

An inherited trait that makes it easier to learn a skill

Question 2

What is a skill

Answer 2

A learned ability with a pre-determined result

Question 3

Name examples of a low and high organised skill.

Answer 3

Low = swimming stroke(easy to break down)
High = Football volley(hard to break down)

Question 4

What are the methods of presenting practice?

(what a coach would do)

Answer 4

-Whole
-Progressive part
- whole-part-whole

Question 5

What is the scale of the continuity continua

Answer 5

Discrete—serial—continuous

Question 6

Three stages of learning are?

Answer 6

cognitive, associative, autonomous

Question 7

4 different types of practice are?

Answer 7

massed practice
distributed practice
varied practice
mental practice

Question 8

Would massed or distributed practice be better for an athlete in the autonomous stage of learning?

Answer 8

massed

Question 9

characteristics of a skill?

Answer 9

aesthetic
predetermined outcome
fluent