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Focus Area 2: Training for improved performance
Quick questions on Skill acquisition and performance improvement: HSC Health and Movement Science Focus Area 2
11short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is types of feedback?Show answer
Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own sensory systems: proprioception, vision of the result, auditory feedback. Skilled performers rely increasingly on intrinsic feedback.
What are coaching cues?Show answer
A coaching cue is a short verbal instruction. The cue's focus of attention matters:
What is cognitive stage?Show answer
The learner is consciously working out what to do. Movements are jerky, errors are large and frequent, performance is inconsistent. The learner cannot reliably self-detect errors.
What is associative stage?Show answer
The performer has the basic idea of the skill and is refining it. Movements are smoother and more consistent. Errors decrease in size and frequency.
What is autonomous stage?Show answer
The skill is largely automatic. The performer can execute reliably under fatigue and can attend to tactical or game-context information rather than the mechanics of the skill. Self-detection of error is reliable and refined.
What is knowledge of performance?Show answer
Feedback about HOW the skill was executed: "your release point was too low", "your back leg drove forward correctly". Useful for technique refinement.
What are knowledge of results?Show answer
Feedback about the OUTCOME: "you missed", "you made the shot". Useful for goal-directed practice but does not by itself tell the performer what to change.
What is frequency?Show answer
Constant feedback (every trial) suits the cognitive stage. Faded feedback (less frequent, summary form) suits associative and autonomous stages because it forces the performer to develop intrinsic feedback skill.
What is q1?Show answer
Distinguish between the cognitive and associative stages of learning. Give one observable difference and one practice-design implication. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain the difference between knowledge of performance (KP) and knowledge of results (KR), and recommend an appropriate use of each in a netball goal shooter's training. [5 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
A coach uses only blocked practice for a junior basketball team learning shooting from multiple positions. Critique this approach and suggest an alternative. [4 marks]