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Unit 3: Movement Skills and Energy for Physical Activity
Quick questions on Practice methods and schedules for VCE Physical Education Unit 3 AoS 1
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What are the three independent practice decisions?Show answer
A coach designing practice makes three independent decisions. They can be combined in any way.
What is the contextual interference effect?Show answer
The reason random and variable practice outperform blocked practice for long-term retention is the contextual interference effect. When the learner has to reconstruct the motor program each trial (because the previous trial was a different skill), they engage deeper memory processes than when the same motor program is repeated. This deeper engagement produces poorer short-term performance (the rust on each attempt is real) but stronger long-term storage.
What is q1?Show answer
Define the contextual interference effect and explain why it predicts that random practice produces better long-term retention than blocked practice. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
A coach is working with a 9 year old cognitive-stage learner on a basketball lay-up. (a) Recommend whether blocked or random practice is more appropriate and justify it. (b) Recommend whether part or whole practice is more appropriate and justify it.
What is q3?Show answer
Explain why an autonomous tennis player preparing for a tournament benefits from massed random practice rather than distributed blocked practice in the final week. [3 marks]
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