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PGA Level 1 Teaching & Coaching Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
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) -
Answer✔️✔️-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) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Cognitive learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass through when
learning a new skill. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the autonomous
phase of learning. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a motor
program memory to be forgotten. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress through the 3 phases
of golf skill learning. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
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Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill technique were
caused by changes in motivation. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-False
3 Phases of Golf Skill Learning - Answer✔️✔️-1) Early (cognitive), 2) Intermediate
(associative), 3) Advanced (autonomous)
Memory - Answer✔️✔️-An internal representation of an event, experience, or
something learned, and is about its storage and retrieval.
Retention - Answer✔️✔️-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) - Answer✔️✔️-True
As learning takes place there are 4 performance characteristics observed. What are
they? - Answer✔️✔️-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) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are suitable as
evidence for learning? (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-False
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One-minute is about the short term memory storage capacity for new cognitive
information before it is lost due to inattention? (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement. (T/F) -
Answer✔️✔️-True
Intrinsic Feedback - Answer✔️✔️-Comes solely from the student and arises as a
natural consequence of the performed skill.
Augmented Feedback - Answer✔️✔️-Received from a source external to the
performer that supplements the intrinsic feedback.
Performance is: - Answer✔️✔️-Observable Behavior
Learning is not: - Answer✔️✔️-Observable Behavior
What is an indication that learning has occurred? - Answer✔️✔️-When a relatively
permanent change in performance has occurred.
Outcome Measures - Answer✔️✔️-simply focus on what happens as a result of the
movement.
What happens to the student in the early phase of golf skill learning? - Answer✔️✔️-
The student may have cognitive self-talk aloud, lack confidence, and fear of
failure.
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What should instructors teach their students in the early learning phase? -
Answer✔️✔️-1)Explain and demonstrate the new skill or correction, 2)CLEARLY
point out appropriate cues, 3)Encourage students to exercise patience in learning
and 4) Encourage positive and rational self talk.
How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase to play on the
course in the intermediate phase? - Answer✔️✔️-Transfer Practice
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-If a student has
been chipping on flat lie, move the student to uneven lies.
What would be a Retention Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-If the student
takes a lesson and then practices three times that week, how will the skill hold up
after two weeks with no practice.
According to the 2004 Guadagnoli and Lee study, what is the optimal challenge
point? - Answer✔️✔️-the middle ground between being under challenged and over
challenged.
According to the Gentile's Model what is the second stage of learning called? -
Answer✔️✔️-Fixation/Diversification Stage
Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning takes place.
(T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-False
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PGA Level 1 Teaching & Coaching Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
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) -
Answer✔️✔️-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) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Cognitive learning is the first phase of learning a student will pass through when
learning a new skill. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Effectively inhibiting unwanted movements is a characteristic of the autonomous
phase of learning. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Competing movements encountered in new skill learning can cause a motor
program memory to be forgotten. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Students can expect a slower rate of learning as they progress through the 3 phases
of golf skill learning. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
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Motor learning has taken place when the improvements in skill technique were
caused by changes in motivation. (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-False
3 Phases of Golf Skill Learning - Answer✔️✔️-1) Early (cognitive), 2) Intermediate
(associative), 3) Advanced (autonomous)
Memory - Answer✔️✔️-An internal representation of an event, experience, or
something learned, and is about its storage and retrieval.
Retention - Answer✔️✔️-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) - Answer✔️✔️-True
As learning takes place there are 4 performance characteristics observed. What are
they? - Answer✔️✔️-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) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Changes in performance that result from increased motivation are suitable as
evidence for learning? (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-False
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One-minute is about the short term memory storage capacity for new cognitive
information before it is lost due to inattention? (T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-True
Performance production measures are the result of the movement. (T/F) -
Answer✔️✔️-True
Intrinsic Feedback - Answer✔️✔️-Comes solely from the student and arises as a
natural consequence of the performed skill.
Augmented Feedback - Answer✔️✔️-Received from a source external to the
performer that supplements the intrinsic feedback.
Performance is: - Answer✔️✔️-Observable Behavior
Learning is not: - Answer✔️✔️-Observable Behavior
What is an indication that learning has occurred? - Answer✔️✔️-When a relatively
permanent change in performance has occurred.
Outcome Measures - Answer✔️✔️-simply focus on what happens as a result of the
movement.
What happens to the student in the early phase of golf skill learning? - Answer✔️✔️-
The student may have cognitive self-talk aloud, lack confidence, and fear of
failure.
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What should instructors teach their students in the early learning phase? -
Answer✔️✔️-1)Explain and demonstrate the new skill or correction, 2)CLEARLY
point out appropriate cues, 3)Encourage students to exercise patience in learning
and 4) Encourage positive and rational self talk.
How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase to play on the
course in the intermediate phase? - Answer✔️✔️-Transfer Practice
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-If a student has
been chipping on flat lie, move the student to uneven lies.
What would be a Retention Test to determine learning? - Answer✔️✔️-If the student
takes a lesson and then practices three times that week, how will the skill hold up
after two weeks with no practice.
According to the 2004 Guadagnoli and Lee study, what is the optimal challenge
point? - Answer✔️✔️-the middle ground between being under challenged and over
challenged.
According to the Gentile's Model what is the second stage of learning called? -
Answer✔️✔️-Fixation/Diversification Stage
Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning takes place.
(T/F) - Answer✔️✔️-False
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