Year 11 - Physical education
Characteristics of skilful movement
Sport psychology: skill and ability
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Unit Summary
This unit develops understanding of what skillful movement looks like and how it can be classified on different continua. It builds on the basic understanding that psychological factors can affect sporting performance in the same way physiological factors influence it.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain with practical examples the characteristics of skilful movement.
Key Notes
- Skill refers to the learned ability to bring about predetermined results with maximum certainty.
- A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task.
- Skilful movement is efficient, pre-determined, co-ordinated, fluent and aesthetically pleasing.
Vocabulary To Learn
- motor skill: a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task. These tasks could include walking, running or riding a bike
- skilful movement: a fluent and co-ordinated movement which is efficient, technically accurate and aesthetically pleasing
- aesthetically pleasing: something that is visually attractive or appealing to the senses
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Performance in sport is entirely down to physiological capabilities such as speed, strength and technique.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Skill refers to the learned ability to bring about predetermined results with maximum certainty. A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'motor skill'
a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task. These tasks could include walking, running or riding a bike.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Performance in sport is entirely down to physiological capabilities such as speed, strength and technique. Correction: Psychological factors such as confidence, motivation and learned behaviours from similar experiences in the past, have as much impact on performance in sport, as the level of skill that players have.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Classification of skills continua Study Guide
- Classification of skills on a continua Study Guide
- Massed, distributed, fixed and variable practice Study Guide
- Self-paced/externally paced and gross/fine continua Study Guide
- Skill and ability Study Guide
- The difficulty and environmental continua Study Guide
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