PE MIDTERMS

• Fundamental Movement Skills: these are basic building blocks of physical activity and are essential for the development of more complex and specialized movement. These skills provide the foundation for various physical activities and sports, contributing to overall physical literacy.
• Locomotor Skills: Basic movements that involve the transportation of the body from one point to another.
• Walking: basic form of bipedal movement involving a coordinated sequence of steps.
• Running: A faster and more dynamic form of bipedal movement with a flight phase where both feet are off the ground.
• Jumping: Propelling the body off the ground and landing on both feet.
• Stability and Balance Skills: These are movements where the body remains in place but moves around its horizontal and vertical axis
• Balancing: Maintaining an upright posture and equilibrium.
• Hopping: Jumping on one foot.
• Galloping and Sliding: Coordinated movements involving a combination of steps.
• Manipulative Skills: These are skills that require an ability to handle an object or piece of equipment with control.
• Throwing: Propelling an object away from the body using the hand and the arm
• Catching: Receiving and gaining control of a thrown object.
• Kicking: Striking an object with the foot.
• Skilled Peformances: refer to the ability to execute specific tasks, activities, or movements with a high level of proficiency, precision and expertise.
• Cognitive Skills: Involve the mental processes that are essential for sports performance. They are the foundation upon which strategies are built and decisions are made during sporting activities.
• Perceptual skills: are critical in sports, where quick interpretation of environmental stimuli can be the difference between winning and losing.
• Motor Skills: These skills form the physical component of sports performance, encompassing actions ranging from basic movements to complex sequences. It refer to the coordinated movements and actions of muscles and limbs that allow individuals to perform various physical activities and tasks.
• Environmental Influence Continuum: This continuum may represent the range of environmental factors that influence a particular activity or behavior.
• Open skills are predominantly perceptual, with no clear beginning or end
• Closed skills are predominantly habitual, with a clear beginning and end
• Continuity Continuum: describe the degree of continuity or stability in a process or situation
• Discrete skills are those that have a clear beginning and end
• Serial skills are those that have several discrete elements linked together
• Continuous skills are those that cannot be split up very easily into subroutine
• Muscular Involvement Continuum: could refer to the level or extent of muscular engagement required in a physical activity
• Gross skills are those that use large muscle movements
• ▪ Fine skills are those that use small muscle movements
• The pacing continuum may represent the variation in the speed or tempo of an activity.
• Self-paced skills are those in which the performer has control over movement
• ▪ Externally-paced skills are those in which the environment has more control
• high organisation have a complex organizational structure with subroutines
• The difficulty continuum could represent the varying levels of complexity or challenge in a task or activity
• Simple skills are straightforward skills with few subroutines requiring little concentration and cognitive activity on the part of the performer
• Complex skills are complicated skills requiring a lot of attention or practice
• The skill continuum could represent the progression or hierarchy of skill development in a particular domain.