Practice Strategies Quiz

What is the main purpose of structuring practice sessions?

• To tire out the athletes

• To have fun

• To make the sessions longer

• To ensure appropriate skill development

Which type of practice involves breaking a skill down into its sub-routines and practicing one or more parts of the skill?

• Random Practice

• Serial Practice

• Part Practice

• Whole Practice

What type of practice involves scheduling training sessions that are long in duration but less frequent?

• Distributed Practice

• Serial Practice

• Massed Practice

• Random Practice

Which type of practice works well for beginners and for complex tasks?

• Whole Practice

• Random Practice

• Serial Practice

• Blocked Practice

What does distributed practice suit?

• Professional or full-time athletes

• Non-professional or social athletes/teams

• Athletes with work or school commitments

• Athletes with family commitments

What does blocked practice work well for?

• Professional or full-time athletes

• Beginners trying to master a new skill

• Athletes in the associative or autonomous stages of learning

• Athletes with family commitments

What is the main benefit of random practice for the learner?

• Allows the novice to rest between practice

• Provides a predictable learning environment

• Develops the fundamentals

• Develops decision-making skills

What is the amount of change in the practice environment and the performance of the skill known as?

• Early specialisation

• Deliberate practice

• Practice variability

• Deliberate play

What does serial practice involve?

• A modified sporting activity designed by the participants to maximise fun

• Rehearsing multiple skills in the same training session in a predictable order

• Rehearsing one skill in isolation in a predictable/closed environment

• Performing many different skills in an unpredictable order

What type of practice is best suited for a novice swimmer practising butterfly?

• Massed Practice and Blocked Practice

• Distributed Practice and Random Practice

• Distributed Practice and Blocked Practice

• Massed Practice and Random Practice