1. Classification of motor skills Methods of manipulating skills practice Part, Whole Part Whole, Progressive Classification of abilities

2. The development of motor skills and the use of practice methods. Phases/stages of movement skill learning. Fitts and Posner. Cognitive etc Types of guidance. Visual, verbal etc Types of practice. Massed, Distributed, Fixed and Varied Mental practice and mental rehearsal

3. Information processing during the performance of skills Welford and Whiting’s models Serial and parallel processing Memory Strategies to improve retention and retrieval. Reaction time Psychological Refractory Period

4. Motor control of skills Motor programmes Open and Closed loop control Feedback. Positive, Negative, Extrinsic, Intrinsic, Terminal, Concurrent. KP and KR Schema Theory

5. Learning skills in physical activity Motivation and Arousal Drive Theory Inverted U theory Catastrophe theory

6. Theories relating to the learning of movement skills Operant conditioning. S-R (Skinner) Cognitive theory of learning (Gestalt) Observational learning (Bandura) Reinforcement Thorndike’s law

7. Transfer of learning Optimising the effects of positive transfer Varied practice