Year 11 - Physical education
Self-paced/externally paced and gross/fine continua
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 classify skills based on their characteristics and place them on the self-paced/externally paced and gross/fine continua.
Key Notes
- Fine motor skills involve small, precise movements, typically using smaller muscle groups.
- Gross motor skills involve larger movements, typically using larger muscle groups.
- Self-paced skills are initiated and controlled by the performer.
- Externally paced skills are controlled by external factors, such as the environment or an opponent.
Vocabulary To Learn
- skill: a learned action/learned behaviour with the intention of bringing about pre-determined results, with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of time and energy
- gross skill: using large muscle groups to perform big, strong, powerful movements
- fine skill: small and precise movement, showing high levels of accuracy and coordination, involves the use of a small group of muscles.
- self-paced skill: the skill is started when the performer decides to start it and the speed, rate or pace of the skill is controlled by the performer
- externally paced skill: the skill that is started because of an external factor and the speed, rate or pace of the skill is controlled by external factors, e.g., an opponent
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Skills must be one classification or the other, e.g., a skill is either gross or fine.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Fine motor skills involve small, precise movements, typically using smaller muscle groups. Gross motor skills involve larger movements, typically using larger muscle groups.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'skill'
a learned action/learned behaviour with the intention of bringing about pre-determined results, with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of time and energy.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Skills must be one classification or the other, e.g., a skill is either gross or fine. Correction: Ensure pupils understand a continua allows for skills to be classified anywhere along it, and that some skills may fall somewhere between two different classifications.
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