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PGA Level 1 Test - Introduction to Teaching and
Coaching Study Guide
Improvement in golf skill performance due to increased strength and flexibility as
a result of participation in a fitness program is evidence that learning has taken
place. - Answer✔️✔️-False
A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student will be able to
learn a skill from a verbal suggestion. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Autonomous learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass through
when learning a new golf skill. - Answer✔️✔️-False
Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the autonomous
phase of learning. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a motor
program memory to be forgotten. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress through the three
phases of golf skill learning. - Answer✔️✔️-True
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Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill technique were
caused by changes in motivation. - Answer✔️✔️-False
A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is evidence that
learning has occurred. - Answer✔️✔️-False
According to the Challenge Point Framework, the level of difficulty should be
increased as a player improves or becomes familiar with how swing movements
feel. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are suitable as
evidence for learning? - Answer✔️✔️-False
One minute is about the short-term memory storage capacity for new cognitive
information before it is lost due to inattention? - Answer✔️✔️-True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement. - Answer✔️✔️-
True
What is an indication that learning has occurred? - Answer✔️✔️-A relatively
permanent change is observed
What is the basis on which instructors can make reliable inferences that learning
has taken place? - Answer✔️✔️-Feedback
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What happens to the student in the early phase of golf skill learning? - Answer✔️✔️-
When students try to perform the movements patterns that make up the new skill,
they do so cognitively or by actively thinking how to perform the movement
pattern.
What should instructors teach their students in their early learning phase? -
Answer✔️✔️-The instructor should communicate using words, visual or kinesthetic
examples, or other feedback tools to help illustrate a point. The teacher is
responsible for communicating important relationships between movement patterns
that make up the old and the new skill.
What is the definition of learning? - Answer✔️✔️-The change in the ability of a
person to perform a skill
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-Test the skill
in a new environment to change the skill slightly
What would be a Retention Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-Will the
learned golf skill hold up if not practiced for a couple of weeks
Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning takes place.
- Answer✔️✔️-True
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PGA Level 1 Test - Introduction to Teaching and
Coaching Study Guide
Improvement in golf skill performance due to increased strength and flexibility as
a result of participation in a fitness program is evidence that learning has taken
place. - Answer✔️✔️-False
A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student will be able to
learn a skill from a verbal suggestion. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Autonomous learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass through
when learning a new golf skill. - Answer✔️✔️-False
Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the autonomous
phase of learning. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a motor
program memory to be forgotten. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress through the three
phases of golf skill learning. - Answer✔️✔️-True
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Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill technique were
caused by changes in motivation. - Answer✔️✔️-False
A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is evidence that
learning has occurred. - Answer✔️✔️-False
According to the Challenge Point Framework, the level of difficulty should be
increased as a player improves or becomes familiar with how swing movements
feel. - Answer✔️✔️-True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are suitable as
evidence for learning? - Answer✔️✔️-False
One minute is about the short-term memory storage capacity for new cognitive
information before it is lost due to inattention? - Answer✔️✔️-True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement. - Answer✔️✔️-
True
What is an indication that learning has occurred? - Answer✔️✔️-A relatively
permanent change is observed
What is the basis on which instructors can make reliable inferences that learning
has taken place? - Answer✔️✔️-Feedback
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What happens to the student in the early phase of golf skill learning? - Answer✔️✔️-
When students try to perform the movements patterns that make up the new skill,
they do so cognitively or by actively thinking how to perform the movement
pattern.
What should instructors teach their students in their early learning phase? -
Answer✔️✔️-The instructor should communicate using words, visual or kinesthetic
examples, or other feedback tools to help illustrate a point. The teacher is
responsible for communicating important relationships between movement patterns
that make up the old and the new skill.
What is the definition of learning? - Answer✔️✔️-The change in the ability of a
person to perform a skill
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-Test the skill
in a new environment to change the skill slightly
What would be a Retention Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-Will the
learned golf skill hold up if not practiced for a couple of weeks
Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning takes place.
- Answer✔️✔️-True
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