inherited, stable traits that determine an individual's potential to learn or acquire a skill

an outcome that is decided in advance or predictable

Skill and ability

Physical education

Classification of skills continua

Self-paced/externally paced and gross/fine continua

This unit develops understanding of what skillful movement looks like and how it can be classified on different continua. It builds on the basic understanding that psychological factors can affect sporting performance in the same way physiological factors influence it.

Sport psychology: skill and ability

Which of the following terms are in the definition of ability?

Innate refers to a characteristic existing in a person from ...

Which of the following terms are in the definition of skill?

dribbling in and out of players in basketball

landing precisely when catching a netball with good footwork

Match the sporting examples to an ability the skill could have developed from.

Skill is an action with the intention to bring about {{ }} results.

What is defined as the ability to use two or more body parts together?

dribbling around an opponent with a basketball

Match these movements to their definition.

Which of the following is a skill associated with badminton?

Which sport would we associate the skills of catch, rebound, interception and shooting?

Balance is defined as maintaining the centre of {{ }} over a base of support.

Agility is the ability to move and change {{ }} whilst keeping control of the body.

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