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Skill à The ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty, minimum energy, and minimum time à an indicator of quality of performance à Random House Dictionary: 1. The ability to do something well, arising from talent, training, or practice 2. Competent excellence in performance à Johnson Formula - Skill= Speed + Accuracy + Form+ Adaptability à A qualitative expression of performance, expressed through: Productivity and characteristics Characteristics = consistency, meaningful cues, anticipating next response à Established by measuring the outcome of performing the task or observing certain characteristics of the performance that lead to successful outcome Abilities: stable, enduring traits that, for the most part, are genetically determined and that underlie individual’s skilled performance; few in number Learning: a relatively permanent change in capacity of behavior, resulting from experience or some type of practice; 1- there is a modification or change in capacity for behavior, 2- learning is a construct (one must infer learning from performance), 3- learning may occur w/o conscious knowledge; learning is an internal phenomenon that cannot be observed directly, only observed from a person’s behavior or performance. Motor learning: changes in internal processes that determine an individual’s capability for producing a motor task. Level of an individual’s motor learning improves with practice and is often inferred by observing relatively stable levels of the person’s motor performance. Implicit learning: (phenomenon) improvements that occur in an individual’s capability for correct responding as a result of repeated performance attempts and without the person’s awareness of the components of the task that prompted improvements.
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