PGA Level 1 Teaching & Coaching
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Improvement in golf skill performance due to increased strength
and flexibility as a result of participation in a fitness program is that
learning has taken place. (T/F)
Ans: False
A common mistake in teaching is the expectation that the student
will be able to learn a skill from a verbal suggestion. (T/F)
Ans: True
Cognitive learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass
through when learning a new skill. (T/F)
Ans: True
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Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the
autonomous phase of learning. (T/F)
Ans: True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause
a motor program memory to be forgotten. (T/F)
Ans: True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress
through the 3 phases of golf skill learning. (T/F)
Ans: True
Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill
technique were caused by changes in motivation. (T/F)
Ans: False
3 Phases of Golf Skill Learning
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Ans: 1) Early (cognitive), 2) Intermediate (associative), 3) Advanced
(autonomous)
Memory
Ans: An internal representation of an event, experience, or something
learned, and is about its storage and retrieval.
Retention
Ans: Persistence or durability over time of something learned.
A student's improved performance by the end of the first lesson is
evidence that learning has occurred. (T/F)
Ans: True
As learning takes place there are 4 performance characteristics
observed. What are they?
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Ans: Improvement, consistency, persistence, adaptability
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. (T/F)
Ans: True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are
suitable as evidence for learning? (T/F)
Ans: False
One-minute is about the short term memory storage capacity for
new cognitive information before it is lost due to inattention? (T/F)
Ans: True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement.
(T/F)