Factors affecting performance

1. Physical Education
Unit 1:
Factors affecting performance
By: Miss Sylvia

2. Skills, Action And Movements
Skill
 A task that has a specific goal to
achieve (action goal)
 An indicator of quality of performance
 E.g. multiplication is a fundamental
skill of mathematics

3. Action
 Are goal-oriented activities that consist
of body and/or limb movements
 Motor skills share these
characteristics and need to be learned
Movements
 Behavioral characteristics of a specific
limb or a combination of limbs

4. Motor Skill
 a goal oriented act or task that requires
voluntary body/or limb movement and
must be learned
 The ability to bring out some end results
with maximum certainty and minimum
outlay of energy, or of time and energy
(Guthrie, 1952)
 Motor skills require body, head and/or
limb movement to achieve its goal
 E.g. kicking, jumping, throwing, catching,
grasping, etc.

5. Types of Skills
Types of
Skills
Basic (Generic)
& Complex
(Secondary)
Fine & Gross
Motor Skill
Open & Closed
Continuum

6. Types of Skills
Basic (Generic) Motor Skill
 Movement that readily, available
 Exist naturally and biologically
 E,g. walking, running, jumping
Complex (Secondary) Motor Skill
 Movement acquired through learning
 Developed through practice and training
processes
 E.g. Fosbury Flop/straddle style
technique in the high jump event,
Sprinting

7. Types of Skills
Gross motor skills
 Requires the use of large musculature
to achieve the goal of the skills
 A motor skill that places less emphasis
on precision and is typically the results
of multi limb movement
 i.e., walking, jumping

8. Types of Skills
Fine motor skills
 Requires control of small muscles to
achieve the goal of the skill
 A motor skill involving very precise
movements normally accomplished
using smaller musculature
 i.e., hand/eye coordination, sewing a
button, grasping a cup, typing a word
on a keyboard (precision)

9. Types of Skills
Closed motor skill
 motor skill performed in a stable or
predictable environment where the
performer determines when to begin the
action, i.e., picking up a cup while
seated)
Open motor skill
 motor skill involving a non-stable,
unpredictable environment where an
object or environmental context is in
motion and determines when to begin
the action, i.e., running a race with other
runners

10. Class Activities
Provide some examples
of
Gross and Fine Motor
Skills