Motor or movement skill: - Answers an
action or task that has a goal
and that requires voluntary
body and/or limb movement to
achieve the goal and is learned
rather than being innate.
Sub-routines: - Answers the elements, or
separate movements, that make
up a particular skill. For example,
striking a ball in hockey involves
grip, stance, backlift, forward
swing, strike and follow through.
Attentional wastage: - Answers the
performer's concentration can
be misdirected to irrelevant cues.
This can damage the effectiveness
of their performance and will
particularly affect the way a
novice learns
Kinaesthetic sense: - Answers the sense
or physical feeling that we get
of the movements we make.
Proprioceptors or nerves in our
muscles, ligaments and joints
, send messages to the brain that
give us information about where
we are and what we are doing.
Motor programme: - Answers a generalised
series of movements stored in
long-term memory and retrieved
by a single decision.
chaining: - Answers has the same meaning
as the progressive part method
of practice. A serial skill is often
broken down into its sub-routines,
which that can be seen as links of
a chain.
Proactive transfer: - Answers the influence
of one skill on a skill yet to be
performed.
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Retroactive transfer: - Answers the
influence of one skill on the
learning or performance of a skill
that has previously been learned.
Positive transfer: - Answers when the
learning and performance of
one skill helps the learning and
performance of another skill.