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Skill Acquisition in Sport

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How are particular performance of key skills enable them to be considered as ‘skilled performers’? 

a)

Having no Charisma.

b)

Fluency and Control.

c)

Good Communication Skills.

d)

Showing no Efficiency.

2.

What does Perception mean? (This was linked to assignment 1)

a)

Being able to understand the technical, tactical, psychological and physical aspects of a game.

b)

A leadership style.

c)

The ability to complete a skill and ability to a high standard.

d)

The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

3.

Takes full control of the group and makes decisions solely based on their opinion and thoughts.

a)

Democratic Leadership Style.

b)

Laissez - Faire Leadership Style.

c)

Autocratic Leadership Style.

4.

A behaviourist Theory.......

a)

Classical Conditioning.

b)

Closed-Loop.

c)

Open Loop.

d)

Schema.

5.

Your ........................... is the quality which makes it possible for you to achieve a task?

a)

Skill

b)

Ability

c)

Characteristics

d)

Technical Aspects

6.

Practice stage in regards to repetition of the techniques and skills being performed, you may never leave this stage?

a)

Autonomous

b)

Associative

c)

Cognitive

d)

Professional

7.

How do you 'Critically evaluate' something?

a)

To 'critically evaluate', you must provide your opinion or verdict on whether an argument, or set of research findings, is accurate. This should be done in as critical a manner as possible

b)

To 'Critically evaluate', you need to describe and explain something.

c)

To 'Critically evaluate' you just give strengths and areas of development for something or your research findings.

8.

What does the 'VAK' learning style stand for?

a)

Visual, Audit, Kinaesthetic

b)

Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic

c)

Visual, Autocratic, Kinaesthetic

9.

'The coach arrived and put all the equipment down and asked to get on with whatever we like...' What Coaching style is being shown here?

a)

Autocratic

b)

Lazy

c)

Laissez - Faire

d)

Democratic

10.

Is it useful to just use 1 method of teaching when coaching?

a)

Yes

b)

No

11.

What can be the influencing factors to learning?

4 lines
12.

Classical Conditioning is...........

a)

is a process of shaping a behaviour by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed.

b)

is a process of something you cant do.

c)

is a process in which a previously neutral stimulus comes to evoke a specific response.

13.

Who did Pavlov base his Conditioning on?

a)

Hamsters.

b)

Cats

c)

Dogs

d)

Dogs and Horses.

14.

Open loop control theory is...................

a)

Whole movements recalled from brain (memory trace) prior to performing a skill.

b)

Based on basic motor learning research that focused on slow, graded, linear positioning tasks, which involved error detection and correction to meet goal demands.

c)

Requiring a separate memory trace for every single possible movement!

15.

When a skier is skiing down a mountain and their muscles are reacting to the terrains/ surfaces of the slope, this is an example of which Cognitive theory?

a)

Pavlovs Conditioning

b)

Schema

c)

Open Loop Theory

d)

Closed Loop Theory