01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Motor Skill
27 Dec 2017
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A general trait or capacity of a person. Serves as a determinant of a person"s achievement potential for the performance of specific skills. An ability that is specifically related to the performance of a motor skill. Each person has a variety of motor abilities. Motor abilities establish achievement potentials for specific motor skills. Each motor skill requires specific motor abilities to successfully perform it. General motor ability hypothesis: many different motor abilities that exist are highly related within a person and can be grouped as a singular, global motor ability. Specificity of motor ability hypothesis- many motor abilities are relatively independent in an individual. All motor abilities are highly related to each other. A person can be described as having an overall amount of general motor ability. Each person varies in the amount of each ability. Research technique to test the question of which hypothesis valid:
