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PGA Level 1 Teaching & Coaching Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
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Improvement in golf skill performance due to increased strength and flexibility as a result of
participation in a fitness program is that learning has taken place. (T/F) - Answer✔False
A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student will be able to learn a skill
from a verbal suggestion. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Cognitive learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass through when learning a new
skill. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the autonomous phase of
learning. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a motor program memory
to be forgotten. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress through the 3 phases of golf skill
learning. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill technique were caused by
changes in motivation. (T/F) - Answer✔False
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3 Phases of Golf Skill Learning - Answer✔1) Early (cognitive), 2) Intermediate (associative), 3)
Advanced (autonomous)
Memory - Answer✔An internal representation of an event, experience, or something learned,
and is about its storage and retrieval.
Retention - Answer✔Persistence or durability over time of something learned.
A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is evidence that learning has
occurred. (T/F) - Answer✔True
As learning takes place there are 4 performance characteristics observed. What are they? -
Answer✔Improvement, consistency, persistence, adaptability
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. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are suitable as evidence for
learning? (T/F) - Answer✔False
One-minute is about the short term memory storage capacity for new cognitive information
before it is lost due to inattention? (T/F) - Answer✔True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Intrinsic Feedback - Answer✔Comes solely from the student and arises as a natural
consequence of the performed skill.
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Augmented Feedback - Answer✔Received from a source external to the performer that
supplements the intrinsic feedback.
Performance is: - Answer✔Observable Behavior
Learning is not: - Answer✔Observable Behavior
What is an indication that learning has occurred? - Answer✔When a relatively permanent
change in performance has occurred.
Outcome Measures - Answer✔simply focus on what happens as a result of the movement.
What happens to the student in the early phase of golf skill learning? - Answer✔The student
may have cognitive self-talk aloud, lack confidence, and fear of failure.
What should instructors teach their students in the early learning phase? - Answer✔1)Explain
and demonstrate the new skill or correction, 2)CLEARLY point out appropriate cues,
3)Encourage students to exercise patience in learning and 4) Encourage positive and rational
self talk.
How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase to play on the course in
the intermediate phase? - Answer✔Transfer Practice
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? - Answer✔If a student has been chipping
on flat lie, move the student to uneven lies.
What would be a Retention Test to determine learning? - Answer✔If the student takes a lesson
and then practices three times that week, how will the skill hold up after two weeks with no
practice.
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PGA Level 1 Teaching & Coaching Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
Guaranteed Pass
Improvement in golf skill performance due to increased strength and flexibility as a result of
participation in a fitness program is that learning has taken place. (T/F) - Answer✔False
A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student will be able to learn a skill
from a verbal suggestion. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Cognitive learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass through when learning a new
skill. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the autonomous phase of
learning. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a motor program memory
to be forgotten. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress through the 3 phases of golf skill
learning. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill technique were caused by
changes in motivation. (T/F) - Answer✔False
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3 Phases of Golf Skill Learning - Answer✔1) Early (cognitive), 2) Intermediate (associative), 3)
Advanced (autonomous)
Memory - Answer✔An internal representation of an event, experience, or something learned,
and is about its storage and retrieval.
Retention - Answer✔Persistence or durability over time of something learned.
A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is evidence that learning has
occurred. (T/F) - Answer✔True
As learning takes place there are 4 performance characteristics observed. What are they? -
Answer✔Improvement, consistency, persistence, adaptability
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. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are suitable as evidence for
learning? (T/F) - Answer✔False
One-minute is about the short term memory storage capacity for new cognitive information
before it is lost due to inattention? (T/F) - Answer✔True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement. (T/F) - Answer✔True
Intrinsic Feedback - Answer✔Comes solely from the student and arises as a natural
consequence of the performed skill.
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Augmented Feedback - Answer✔Received from a source external to the performer that
supplements the intrinsic feedback.
Performance is: - Answer✔Observable Behavior
Learning is not: - Answer✔Observable Behavior
What is an indication that learning has occurred? - Answer✔When a relatively permanent
change in performance has occurred.
Outcome Measures - Answer✔simply focus on what happens as a result of the movement.
What happens to the student in the early phase of golf skill learning? - Answer✔The student
may have cognitive self-talk aloud, lack confidence, and fear of failure.
What should instructors teach their students in the early learning phase? - Answer✔1)Explain
and demonstrate the new skill or correction, 2)CLEARLY point out appropriate cues,
3)Encourage students to exercise patience in learning and 4) Encourage positive and rational
self talk.
How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase to play on the course in
the intermediate phase? - Answer✔Transfer Practice
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? - Answer✔If a student has been chipping
on flat lie, move the student to uneven lies.
What would be a Retention Test to determine learning? - Answer✔If the student takes a lesson
and then practices three times that week, how will the skill hold up after two weeks with no
practice.
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