KINE 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Response Bias, Key Hole, Binary Logarithm
19 Apr 2016
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Skill: ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty, minimum out of energy, or of time and energy: (a) performing skills implies some desired environmental goal (b) give an example of this goal. Physiological energy cost is lowered and also the psychological or mental energy required is reduced. Can often results in sloppy movements that have less certainty in terms of achieving the environmental goal. Skilled generally involve achieving some well-defined environmental goal by. Minimizing the physical and mental energy costs of performance, Body transport components bring the body or limb to the action. Open skill is one for which the environment is variable and unpredictable during the action (ex: carrying the ball against a defensive team in football or wrestling) Discrete skill: clear beginning and end of movement (ex: throwing, hitting, etc) Serial skill: a group of discrete skills strung together to make up a new, more complicated skilled action.
