PGA PGM 3.0 Level 1 Test
2026 | 100% Accurate
• A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student will
be able to learn a skill from a verbal suggestion -✓✓True
• Autonomous learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass
through when learning a new golf skill. -✓✓False
• Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the
autonomous phase of learning. -✓✓True
• Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a
motor program memory to be forgotten. -✓✓True
• Students can expect as lower rate of learning as they progress through
the three phases of golf skill learning. -✓✓True
• Motor learning. has taken place when the improvements in skill
technique were caused by changes in motivation. -✓✓False
• A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is
evidence that learning has occurred. -✓✓false
• According to the Challenge Point Framework, the level of difficulty
should be increased as a player improves or becomes familiar with how
swing movements feel. -✓✓True
• Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are
suitable as evidence for learning? -✓✓False
,• One minute is about the short-term memory storage capacity for new
cognitive information before it is lost due to inattention? -✓✓True
• Performance production measures are the result of the movement. -
✓✓False
• What is an indication that learning has occurred? -✓✓Relative
permeant change
• What is the basis on which instructors can make reliable inferences that
learning has taken place? -✓✓Permeant results in experience and
practice
• How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase to
play on the course in the intermediate learning phase? -✓✓......
• What increases as students transition from early to intermediate to the
advanced phase of learning? -✓✓Movement coordination
• What is the definition of learning? -✓✓Relatively permeant change
• What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? -✓✓Taking time
off and coming back
• According to the 2004 Guadagnoli and Lee study, what is the optimal
challenge point? -✓✓Middle ground of challenge
• According to Gentile's Model, what is the second stage of learning
called? -✓✓Fixation/diversification
• Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning
takes place. -✓✓False
, • What should instructors limit to help students process information from
short term to long-term memory? -✓✓Chunks and cues
• Where does the ability to retrieve accomplished swing skills reside -
✓✓Long-term memory
• What is the essential assumption of the basic information processing
model? -✓✓People are active processors of information
• Juniors: Learning, fitness, Develop Programs -✓✓
• Fundamental movement skills should be the focus of pre-teen
training?( -✓✓True
• Early success in golf for Juniors is the reliable predictor of long-term
success. -✓✓False
• What should the learning environment emphasize when working with
early childhood students? -✓✓Experimentations with movement and
skills
• What is the first thing an instructor should test when determining the
physical capabilities of a junior golfer? -✓✓Motor skills
• Which exercises are best for evaluating a junior's movement patterns? -
✓✓Throwing, striking, running, skipping
• What is likely being evaluated when an informed instructor asks a
junior golfer to throw or kick a ball? -✓✓Distance control
• Introduction to building relationships and communication -✓✓
2026 | 100% Accurate
• A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student will
be able to learn a skill from a verbal suggestion -✓✓True
• Autonomous learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass
through when learning a new golf skill. -✓✓False
• Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the
autonomous phase of learning. -✓✓True
• Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a
motor program memory to be forgotten. -✓✓True
• Students can expect as lower rate of learning as they progress through
the three phases of golf skill learning. -✓✓True
• Motor learning. has taken place when the improvements in skill
technique were caused by changes in motivation. -✓✓False
• A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is
evidence that learning has occurred. -✓✓false
• According to the Challenge Point Framework, the level of difficulty
should be increased as a player improves or becomes familiar with how
swing movements feel. -✓✓True
• Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are
suitable as evidence for learning? -✓✓False
,• One minute is about the short-term memory storage capacity for new
cognitive information before it is lost due to inattention? -✓✓True
• Performance production measures are the result of the movement. -
✓✓False
• What is an indication that learning has occurred? -✓✓Relative
permeant change
• What is the basis on which instructors can make reliable inferences that
learning has taken place? -✓✓Permeant results in experience and
practice
• How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase to
play on the course in the intermediate learning phase? -✓✓......
• What increases as students transition from early to intermediate to the
advanced phase of learning? -✓✓Movement coordination
• What is the definition of learning? -✓✓Relatively permeant change
• What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? -✓✓Taking time
off and coming back
• According to the 2004 Guadagnoli and Lee study, what is the optimal
challenge point? -✓✓Middle ground of challenge
• According to Gentile's Model, what is the second stage of learning
called? -✓✓Fixation/diversification
• Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning
takes place. -✓✓False
, • What should instructors limit to help students process information from
short term to long-term memory? -✓✓Chunks and cues
• Where does the ability to retrieve accomplished swing skills reside -
✓✓Long-term memory
• What is the essential assumption of the basic information processing
model? -✓✓People are active processors of information
• Juniors: Learning, fitness, Develop Programs -✓✓
• Fundamental movement skills should be the focus of pre-teen
training?( -✓✓True
• Early success in golf for Juniors is the reliable predictor of long-term
success. -✓✓False
• What should the learning environment emphasize when working with
early childhood students? -✓✓Experimentations with movement and
skills
• What is the first thing an instructor should test when determining the
physical capabilities of a junior golfer? -✓✓Motor skills
• Which exercises are best for evaluating a junior's movement patterns? -
✓✓Throwing, striking, running, skipping
• What is likely being evaluated when an informed instructor asks a
junior golfer to throw or kick a ball? -✓✓Distance control
• Introduction to building relationships and communication -✓✓
