Quiz on Skills and Abilities

What are the characteristics of skill?

• Goal-oriented, meet performance goal with maximum certainty, learned through practice

• Spontaneous, random, and unpredictable

• Requires minimal effort and no practice

• Based on innate abilities and cannot be improved

What are the different types of skill?

• Motor skill, perceptual skill, and perceptual-motor skills, cognitive

• Physical skill, mental skill, and emotional skill

• Verbal skill, non-verbal skill, and written skill

• Technical skill, analytical skill, and creative skill

What is a motor skill?

• A skill that requires critical thinking and problem-solving

• A skill that emphasizes movement and does not require much thinking like weightlifting

• A skill that involves memorizing information

• A skill that is primarily cognitive and involves decision-making

What are the classifications of motor skills?

• Discrete, serial, continuous, open, closed, gross, fine, individual, co-active, interactive

• Simple, complex, advanced, basic, intermediate

• Physical, mental, emotional, social

• Verbal, non-verbal, written, spoken

What are abilities?

• Traits we are born with, perceptual and motor attributes inherited from our parents that enable us to perform skills

• Skills that are learned through practice and experience

• Techniques that are developed over time

• Knowledge that is acquired through education

What are motor abilities?

• Abilities relating to the actual movement

• Abilities that are purely cognitive and do not involve any physical movement

• Abilities that are based on innate talents and cannot be improved

• Abilities that involve only mental processing and no physical movement

What are physical proficiency abilities?

• Static strength, dynamic strength, explosive strength, trunk strength, extent flexibility, dynamic flexibility, gross body coordination, gross body equilibrium, stamina

• Cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, social skills

• Verbal skills, non-verbal skills, written skills

• Technical skills, analytical skills, creative skills

What does recall schema refer to?

• Memory with regard to the choice and initiation of action

• Memory for the feel of a movement

• Knowledge of performance

• Knowledge of results

What are the two major forms of feedback?

• Knowledge of performance and knowledge of results

• Intrinsic and extrinsic feedback

• Concurrent and terminal feedback

• Positive and negative feedback

What is intrinsic feedback?

• No outside help, see results without anyone needing to tell us what happened

• Provided by someone else

• During performance

• After completion