Introduction to: Motor Skills and Abilities

 1. A task with a specific goal to achieve  Fundamental  Sport related  Music applications 2. An indicator of quality of performance.

 Requires voluntary body and or limb movements.

 behavioral characteristics of specific limbs or a combination of limbs that are component parts of an action or motor skill.  Actions: a goal directed activity that consists of body and/or limb movements.

 A goal directed activity that consists of body and/or limb movements.

 gross motor skill – a motor skill that requires the use of large musculature to achieve the goal of the skill  Examples:  fine motor skill – a motor skill that requires control of small muscles to achieve the goal of the skill; typically involves eye-hand coordination and requires a high degree of precision of hand and finger movement.  Examples:

DISCRETE & SERIAL SKILLS CONTINUOUS MOTOR SKILL  discrete motor skill – a motor skill with clearly defined beginning and end points, usually requiring a simple movement Exp:  serial motor skill – a motor skill involving a series of discrete skills.  Examples:  continuous motor skill – a motor skill with arbitrary beginning and end points, usually involving repetitive movements  Examples:

 closed motor skill - a motor skill performed in a stable or predictable environment where the performer determines when to begin the action  open motor skill - a motor skill that involves a nonstable unpredictable environment where an object or environmental context is in motion and determines when to begin the action

 Page 12  Key Term:taxonomy – a classification system organized according to relationships among the component characteristics of the group of items or objects being classified  Environmental context  Key Terms:regulatory conditions – characteristics of the environmental context that determine (i.e., “regulate”) the required movement characteristics needed to perform an action  intertrial variability – an environmental context characteristic in Gentile’s taxonomy of motor skills; the term refers to whether the regulatory conditions that exist for the performance of a skill in one situation or for one trial are present or absent in the next situation or trial  The function of the action  The sixteen skill categories  Practical application of the taxonomy

 Bloom's Taxonomy model is in three parts, or 'overlapping domains'. Again, Bloom used rather academic language, but the meanings are simple to understand:  Cognitive domain (intellectual capability, ie., knowledge, or 'think' )  Affective domain (feelings, emotions and behaviour, ie., attitude, or 'feel' )  Psychomotor domain (manual and physical skills, ie., skills, or 'do' )