KINE 3020 Chapter Notes -Motor Skill, Psychophysics, Handstand
4 Dec 2013
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Performing skills implies some desired environmental goal, which consist of movement(s) To be skilled implies meeting this performance goal, this end result, with maximum certainty. A major feature in many skills is the minimization, and this conservation, of the energy required for performance. Minimizing the physical and mental energy costs of performance. Deciding what to do and where and when to do it. Open skill is one for which the environment is variable and unpredictable during the action. Discrete skill usually has an easily defined beginning and end, often with a very brief duration of movement and are important in sport performance. Continuous skill has no particular beginning or end, the behavior flowing on for many minutes: give an example of both a discrete skill and continuous skill. Discrete skill throwing or kicking a ball, firing a rifle, or catching a pass. Order of the elements is usually critical for successful performance (b) give an example of a serial skill.
