Classification of skills on a continua

Physical education

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

Put these skills in order from the most closed to open in terms of environmental factors. 

classifying how open or closed a skill is 

classifying whether a skill is low or high organisation

Low organisation skills have separate subroutines. Put these subroutines in order for the tennis serve.

A skill which is complex is likely to have which of these characteristics?

A skill which cannot be broken down into subroutines is classified as {{}} organisation.

Which of the following makes you a skilful performer?

to randomly assign something to a category without any reason

to make something more complicated by adding unnecessary details

to eliminate something from a group entirely

to categorise something based on its characteristics

dribbling a ball around other people with losing it

Which order would most people learn the following skills in?

the weather conditions in a specific area at a given time

a set of laws and regulations governing human activities and behaviours

everything that surrounds us and influences our lives

a collection of buildings and infrastructure that make up a city or town

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Classification of skills on a continua

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.