KINESIOL 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tennis Shots, Motor Skill, Implicit Learning
15 Sep 2016
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3 characteristics: the way the task is organized, the relative importance of motor and cognitive elements, the level of environmental predictability during performance. Skill classified by relative importance of motor and cognitive elements cognitive skill : success depends more on strategy; primary determinant of success is the quality of the performer"s decision regarding knowing what to do. Motor skill: primary determinant of movement success is quality of movement itself rather than perceptual or decision-making aspect of task almost all movements are a mix of both new skills are more cognitive, later more motor. Characteristics of skill performance features proposed by psychologist e. r. Guthrie (1952) skilled movements have a desired goal in mind skill qualities: skilled implies a person can meet performance goal with maximum certainty - consistency. Motor performance: always observable and is influenced by many factors (motivation, attention focus, fatigue, physical fitness, etc.
