HKIN 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cerebral Palsy, Motor Skill
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Outline: motor abilities, abilities as individual-difference variables, general motor ability hypothesis vs. specificity of motor abilities hypothesis, generality of specific motor abilities: balance, timing, the all-around athlete, relating motor abilities to motor skill performance. Identify the differences between the general motor ability hypothesis and the specificity of motor abilities hypothesis: describe evidence that counters the generality of certain specific motor abilities, describe how motor abilities can be related to motor skill performance. Ability: a general trait or capacity of a person, a relatively enduring characteristic, a determinant of a person"s achievement potential for the performance of specific skills. Motor ability: an ability specifically related to the performance of a motor skill, everyone has many motor abilities but different achieving potentials, building blocks of motor skills. Capacity of an individual for performing a number of skills. Cannot test for at birth: ex: balance, dexterity, coordination, etc, the achieving potential is determined by genes.
