Individual Differences and Motor Abilities

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Chapter 2

• Individual Differences and Motor Abilities

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Abilities vs Skills

• Abilities
• Genetic
• Limited number
• Underlie skills
• Not affected by practice

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Abilities vs Skills cont.

• Skills
• Large number
• Proficiency based on
• Underlying abilities
• Practice

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General Motor Ability?

• Are there some people who are good at everything
  and some who are good at none?

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Correlation

• The tool used to investigate the conceptual model
  of abilities
• See page 32 in text

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Fleishmans Proposed Abilities (pg 37)

• Perceptual-Motor
• Reaction Time
• Aiming
• Manual dexterity
• Physical proficiency
• Static strength
• Dynamic strength
• Dynamic flexibility

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Keeles proposed abilities

• Movement rate
• Motor timing
• Perceptual timing
• Force control

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Conceptual model

• How abilities are related to skills page 43-44