Practice and Feedback Quiz

To ensure high-quality practice, it is important that practice:

• is based on learning theory.

• facilitates the transfer of skills from practice to performance environment.

• is representative of the performance environment.

• all the above are important.

Which of the below statements is incorrect?

• Massed practice incorporates minimal rest between practice trials.

• Distributed practice incorporates a long rest between practice trials.

• Distributed practice is more effective during the cognitive stage of learning.

• Research has found that better learning results from fewer and longer practice sessions.

Which of the below statements is incorrect?

• Part practice is effective when practising a complex skill with independent parts, such as a cheerleading sequence.

• Whole practice is effective when practising a simple skill with dependent parts, such as throwing a dart.

• Part practice results in the effective transfer of skills from the practice environment to the performance environment.

• Whole practice allows you the opportunity to practise the timing and coordination of a motor skill.

Which of the below statements is incorrect?

• The repeated practice of a forehand draw in lawn bowls is an example of blocked practice.

• Random practice has been found to be superior to blocked practice for the learning of motor skills.

• Research has found that the transfer of learning from practice into the game is more effective when using blocked practice.

• The repeated practice of marking a ball then kicking for goal is an example of random practice.

Which of the below is an example of constant practice?

• repeatedly practising driving off a tee at a golf driving range

• practising the same touch football move at different parts of the field

• repeatedly practising hitting a ball that rebounds from an uneven surface

• repeatedly practicing serving a tennis ball to different opponents

A 20-minute practice activity involving repetitively dribbling a soccer ball around three markers, five metres apart, can be classified as a combination of what types of practice?

• part, blocked and constant

• whole, blocked and constant

• part, random and constant

• whole, blocked and varied

A drill makes a complex task easier for the novice learner by:

• incorporating unpredictability into the environment.

• separating the physical action from the environment in which it is performed.

• increasing the number of components to think about.

• allowing them to make their own decisions to solve problems.

You watch a video and discover that you take off 30 centimeters behind the take-off board when jumping. This is an example of:

• knowledge of results.

• knowledge of performance.

• intrinsic feedback.

• explicit instruction.

Which of the below statements is incorrect? Representative practice:

• includes the key elements present in the performance environment.

• provides the opportunity to practise technique together with perception and decision-making.

• presents you with many problems to solve.

• separates your actions from your perceptions.

Which of the below instructions has an external focus?

• Throw the frisbee flat like a pizza, making sure that the toppings don’t fall off.

• Keep your head down when hitting the ball.

• Drive your lead leg over the hurdle.

• Bend your knee to 90 degrees.