3.1 skills and skill acquisition

• qualities and characteristics person is born with (CoF) • that allow a person to learn or acquire skills • frequent practice required to turn ability into effective skill-set

• learned or practiced ability • brings about results you want to achieve • with max certainty and efficiency

all cunty manatees are actually greaking expensive totally - age and maturity - culture - motivation - anxiety - arousal conditions - facilities - environment - teaching and coaching

FACCAG - fluent - aesthetically pleasing - consistent - coordinated - accurate - goal-directed

• basic and complex • fine and gross • open and closed

• unaffected by environment or performers • decision making unnecessary, can be performed in same way each time

• simple skills • require lower levels of concentration and coordination • need to be mastered before more complex skills attempted

• theory that brain can only process one piece of info at a time • until one stimulus dealt with and decision made, another cant be acted upon

• more difficult skills • require higher level of coordination and concentration • longer to master, often include multiple sub-routines

• affected by outside environmental factors • weather, pitch conditions, actions by opponents/team • performed diff each time

• input • decision-making • output • feedback

• info received via senses and previous experiences • performer needs to select most relevant info to act upon

• info analysed so performer can choose most appropriate response • info stored in short-term memory at first, long-term if rehearsed over time

• decision made then acted upon • brain send info to muscles, they contract and action performed

• performer receives from variety of sources telling them if successful • stored in memory, can be used to improve decision making in future

• brain can only process certain amt of info at once • too much info results in overload

• cognitive • associative • autonomous

• preparation stage • occupied by beginners starting to learn new skill

• large num mistakes made • performers consciously think about actions needed to perform skill • reliant on input from teacher/coach • skills broken down into sub-routines, practised individually

• practice stage • skill practised repeatedly

• fewer mistakes made as consistency improves • performers may attempt more advanced techniques • may practice in controlled environment (eg reduced court size)

• automatic stage • perform skills with control, accuracy and flair

• mistakes rare and performers can analyse what went wrong • skills performed naturally and without conscious thought • skills used effectively in full games/matches

• intrinsic • extrinsic • knowledge of performance • knowledge of results