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Unit 3: Factors Affecting Performance
Quick questions on Motor learning and coaching: WACE Year 12 Physical Education Studies Unit 3
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What is stages of learning?Show answer
Paul Fitts and Michael Posner described three stages a learner passes through.
What is classifying the skill?Show answer
Skills are placed on continua, not in fixed boxes. The open-closed continuum describes how much the environment varies: a closed skill (a basketball free throw) is performed in a stable, predictable setting, while an open skill (a pass in open play) must be adjusted to a changing environment. The gross-fine continuum describes the size of the muscle groups used. The discrete-serial-continuous continuum describes whether the skill has a clear start and end (discrete), is a chain of discrete skills (serial), or repeats without an obvious break (continuous).
What is feedback?Show answer
Feedback is information about performance. Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own senses (how the movement felt); augmented (extrinsic) feedback is added by a coach, video or scoreboard. Knowledge of results tells the performer the outcome (the ball went out), while knowledge of performance tells them about the quality of the movement that produced it. Cognitive learners need frequent, immediate, simple augmented feedback (mostly knowledge of results and basic knowledge of performance) because their intrinsic feedback is unreliable.
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