HMB200H1 Lecture Notes - Divergent Thinking, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Scatter Plot
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Explain how a practitioner might use the concept of motor abilities to classify skills and perform task analyzes: ethical concerns (ex. Gym in montreal will assess child"s potential based on body shape of parents) Discuss the difficulties inherent in predicting a person"s future performance success based on assessments of that person"s abilities: most important! Are we assessing abilities or skills: aside from a few physical characteristics, practice can do a lot! Identify tasks used during selection trials trials that successfully predict future performance: ex. Vo2 max (endurance); sport specific tasks such as shooting at a target; replicate game situation (add noise/distraction); reaction time test (100m sprinters); jump height (basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, etc. A scatter gram showing the relationship between and age running speed. The second graph shows age and running time. There seems to be a very strong relationship between running time/average speed and age. However, be careful when making extrapolations (= predict the future).
