Skill Acquisition: Practice

Question 1

What is whole practice?

Answer 1

Practicing a skill in its entirety without breaking it into parts.

Question 2

Advantage of whole practice?

Answer 2

Maintains fluency and kinaesthetic feel.

Question 3

Disadvantage of whole practice?

Answer 3

Can cause fatigue and information overload.

Question 4

What is progressive part practice?

Answer 4

Learning one part of a skill before adding the next in sequence (A, B, AB, C, ABC).

Question 5

What is whole-part-whole practice?

Answer 5

Practice entire skill, isolate and improve weak parts, then re-integrate.

Question 6

What is massed practice?

Answer 6

Practice with little or no rest between attempts.

Question 7

What is distributed practice?

Answer 7

Practice with rest intervals between attempts.

Question 8

What is varied practice?

Answer 8

Practicing a skill in a variety of different situations.

Question 9

What is mental practice?

Answer 9

Visualising or imagining a skill without physical movement.

Question 10

Advantage of progressive part practice?

Answer 10

Focus on weakness and and improves confidence

Question 11

Disadvantage of progressive part practice?

Answer 11

Time consuming and Doesn’t give kineasethetic feel for whole skill

Question 12

Advantage of whole part whole practice?

Answer 12

Immediate feedback and Provides motivation when success is achieved

Question 13

Disdvantage of whole part whole practice?

Answer 13

More time consuming and can cause negative transfer

Question 14

Answer 14

B

Question 15

Answer 15

D