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A-LEVEL PE (OCR): PAPER 2 - Skill Acquisition

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These flashcards explain the six classification continua used to categorize sports skills based on their characteristics. They outline how skills can vary across dimensions such as environment, pacing, organisation, muscular involvement, difficulty, and continuity—helping to understand how different skills are performed and learned.

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What are the 6 classification continua ?

  • environment

  • pacing

  • organisation

  • muscular involvement

  • difficulty

  • continuaty

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Definition

What are the 6 classification continua ?

  • environment

  • pacing

  • organisation

  • muscular involvement

  • difficulty

  • ...


What skills are in the environment continua ?

open / closed

What skills are in the pacing continua ?

self / external

What skills are in the organisation continua ?

high / low

What skills are in the muscular involvement continua ?

fine / gross

What skills are in the difficulty continua ?

simple / complex

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A-LEVEL PE (OCR): PAPER 2 - Skill Acquisition
TermDefinition

What are the 6 classification continua ?

  • environment

  • pacing

  • organisation

  • muscular involvement

  • difficulty

  • continuaty


What skills are in the environment continua ?

open / closed

What skills are in the pacing continua ?

self / external

What skills are in the organisation continua ?

high / low

What skills are in the muscular involvement continua ?

fine / gross

What skills are in the difficulty continua ?

simple / complex

What skills are in the continuity continua ?

discrete / serial / continuous

What is MASSED PRACTICE ?

practising continuously without a break

  • simple and discrete

  • experienced athletes

What is DISTRIBUTED PRACTICE ?

practising with breaks

  • gives time to recover

  • gives time for feedback

  • complex

What is VARIABLE PRACTICE ?

repeating technique in many situations

  • open

  • externally paced

  • improves understanding of technique

What is FIXED PRACTICE ?

repeating technique in one situation

  • closed skills

  • discrete

  • low organisation

  • improves motor programme

What is WHOLE PRACTICE ?

practising the whole skill

  • high organisation

  • discrete

  • difficult for skills with sub-routines

What is PART PRACTICE ?

practising different parts of a skill then putting them together

  • discrete

  • high organisation

  • self - paced

What is PROGRESSIVE PRACTICE ?

serial skills are broken down into their sub routines

  • high organisation

  • serial

  • self paced

  • develops confidence

What is WHOLE - PART - WHOLE PRACTICE ?

performer attempts whole skill then parts then whole

- high organisation

What are the 8 different types of practice ?

  • massed

  • distributed

  • varied

  • fixed

  • whole

  • part

  • whole - part - whole

  • progressive

What is POSITIVE TRANSFER ?

  • when learning in one task enhanced by learning in another task

What is an example of POSITIVE TRANSFER ?

sprinter - bobslay

golf - cricket

What is NEGATIVE TRANSFER

  • the learning of one skill is hindered by the learning of another

Give an example of NEGATIVE LEARNING

tennis - badminton

What is PROACTIVE TRANSFER ?


when a skill learned previously is used to help one being currently learned

Give an example of PROACTIVE TRANSFER

basketball - netball (pass)

What is RETROACTIVE TRANSFER ?


when a skill being learned interferes with a skill already learned

Give an example of RECTROACTIVE TRANSFER


when a netball player returns to netball after playing basketball, there may want to run with the ball

What is BILATERAL TRANSFER ?

  • learning a skill on your non-dominant hand/foot


What is RECALL SCHEMA ?

  • occurs before movement happens

| - involves initial conditions and response specifications

What are INITIAL CONDITIONS ?

  1. Where is the (goal, opposition, team mate) ?

  2. What is the environment like ?

  3. What condition am I in ?

What are RESPONSE SPECIFICATIONS ?

  1. How fast do i need to go ? (SPEED)

  2. Where do i need to pass the ball ? (DIRECTION)

  3. How hard to i need to pass the ball ? (POWER)

  4. Which technique will produce the best results ? (TECHNIQUE)

What is RECOGNISION SCHEMA ?

  • occurs during / after the skill

| - allows the recognision of what needs to be improved

What are MOVEMENT OUTCOMES ?


  • knowledge of results

| - end result and comparison to intended outcome

What is SENSORY CONSEQUENCE ?

  • knowledge of performance

| - intrinsic and extrinsic feedback