PGA PGM 3.0 - Level 3 Practice
Questions - All Questions 2025/2026
Exam All Answers and Illustrations
Given
A teacher determines that a student better relates to internal motor
imagery. What technique would be most successful for this student? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Using internal imagery. Player imagines what they see and
feel when they execute the swing from the performer's perspective
What is the cognitive rehearsal of a physical activity in the absence of any
observable muscular movement? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mental practice
What is a conscious experience in which a player uses all her senses to
create or recreate the execution of a motor skill in the player's mind? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Motor imagery
,A student relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is unable to learn
from a face-on video of her swing? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔External imagery
A student relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is able to learn
from a face-on video of her swing? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Internal imagery
Does cognitively rehearsing procedural skills at a fast rate before physically
performing them interfere with the benefits of mental practice? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False - practicing at a faster rate helps remember the steps
they need to perform
What is the definition of modeling when used for teaching and coaching? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The use of a demonstration as a means of conveying
information about how to perform a motor skill. (Observational learning,
used in demonstration)
When is mental practice and motor imagery most effective? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔When used in conjunction with physical practice
What is the best way for beginners to improve their shot performance? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Combine mental and physical practice
,What makes 'cognitive hypothesis' an effective learning tool? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Helps identify what to do and where to focus attention
Which condition enhances the benefits of mental practice? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Cognitive hypothesis
Based on research, at what speed should a skill be mentally rehearsed
prior to actual performance? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The same as actual
performance (the same speed)
What is an effective means of helping a beginner to use motor imagery to
improve performance? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Combine with physical
performance
What situation justifies substituting mental practice for physical practice? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔When the student cannot physically practice
According to research, what will optimize performance when combining
mental and physical practice? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Recall past shots, execute
prior memory
What is an example of "Form Focus of Attention"? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Stance, ball position, posture
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, What is an example of retroactive transfer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Subsequent
learning of a skill affects ability to perform previous acquired skill
What is the influence of a previous skill on the current skill to be learned
regardless of whether the influence is positive or negative? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Proactive transfer
Addison has acquired a new student who previously played ice hockey.
During the opening interview, Addison asks questions to find out ways he
can take advantage of previous learning, what skills to teach, and what
order to teach them. This is an example of what learning transfer concept?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Proactive transfer
What determines the transfer of golf skill learning? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Time,
structural similarity, skills and goals, skill level
What conditions lead to greater learning transfer? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Same/similar conditions, same/similar skills
What term is used to describe transferring a learned skill of a 20-foot chip
onto a practice green to a 50-foot chip on the same practice green? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Response generalization
Questions - All Questions 2025/2026
Exam All Answers and Illustrations
Given
A teacher determines that a student better relates to internal motor
imagery. What technique would be most successful for this student? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Using internal imagery. Player imagines what they see and
feel when they execute the swing from the performer's perspective
What is the cognitive rehearsal of a physical activity in the absence of any
observable muscular movement? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mental practice
What is a conscious experience in which a player uses all her senses to
create or recreate the execution of a motor skill in the player's mind? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Motor imagery
,A student relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is unable to learn
from a face-on video of her swing? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔External imagery
A student relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is able to learn
from a face-on video of her swing? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Internal imagery
Does cognitively rehearsing procedural skills at a fast rate before physically
performing them interfere with the benefits of mental practice? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False - practicing at a faster rate helps remember the steps
they need to perform
What is the definition of modeling when used for teaching and coaching? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The use of a demonstration as a means of conveying
information about how to perform a motor skill. (Observational learning,
used in demonstration)
When is mental practice and motor imagery most effective? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔When used in conjunction with physical practice
What is the best way for beginners to improve their shot performance? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Combine mental and physical practice
,What makes 'cognitive hypothesis' an effective learning tool? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Helps identify what to do and where to focus attention
Which condition enhances the benefits of mental practice? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Cognitive hypothesis
Based on research, at what speed should a skill be mentally rehearsed
prior to actual performance? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The same as actual
performance (the same speed)
What is an effective means of helping a beginner to use motor imagery to
improve performance? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Combine with physical
performance
What situation justifies substituting mental practice for physical practice? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔When the student cannot physically practice
According to research, what will optimize performance when combining
mental and physical practice? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Recall past shots, execute
prior memory
What is an example of "Form Focus of Attention"? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Stance, ball position, posture
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, What is an example of retroactive transfer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Subsequent
learning of a skill affects ability to perform previous acquired skill
What is the influence of a previous skill on the current skill to be learned
regardless of whether the influence is positive or negative? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Proactive transfer
Addison has acquired a new student who previously played ice hockey.
During the opening interview, Addison asks questions to find out ways he
can take advantage of previous learning, what skills to teach, and what
order to teach them. This is an example of what learning transfer concept?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Proactive transfer
What determines the transfer of golf skill learning? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Time,
structural similarity, skills and goals, skill level
What conditions lead to greater learning transfer? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Same/similar conditions, same/similar skills
What term is used to describe transferring a learned skill of a 20-foot chip
onto a practice green to a 50-foot chip on the same practice green? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Response generalization
