Physical and Health Education - Key Concepts and Skills

Flashcards on Physical and Health Education MYP 2, covering skills, abilities, and information processing.

Skill

Proficiency and control in performing a specific movement or activity.

Ability

Traits determining an individual's potential to learn or acquire a skill.

Skill

Learned, complex, and goal-oriented behaviors.

Ability

Innate, basic, goal-independent traits.

Open Skill

Skills affected by the sporting environment, requiring adaptability.

Closed Skill

Skills performed in a predictable environment with a set routine.

Complex Skill

Involves a high level of decision making and has a large cognitive element to it

Simple Skill

Have a limited amount of information to process; skill has a smaller cognitive element.

Low Organised Skill

Can be broken down into parts or subroutines.

High Organised Skill

Hard to break down since it is fast in execution.

Gross Skills

Involve large muscle groups with little precision.

Fine Skills

Involve small muscle groups and intricate movements.

Self-Paced Skills

The performer decides when to start the movement and the speed at which it is carried out.

Externally Paced Skills

The control of the skill is determined by the environment.

Discrete Skills

Skills that have a clear beginning and end.

Serial Skills

A number of discrete elements that are put together in a definite order to make a movement or sequence

Continuous skills

Have no definite beginning or end

Skillful Movement

Efficient, predetermined, coordinated, fluent, aesthetic, and good technique.

Information Processing Model

Input, decision-making, output, and feedback.

Input

Information received from the senses.

Decision-Making

Interprets input using short and long-term memory to decide the response.

Output

The action or actions that respond to the situation.

Feedback

Indicates whether the response was correct and successful.