PGA PGM Level 1 3.0 Teaching and Coaching Questions
with Answers (100% Correct Answers)
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 as lower rate of learning as they progress through
the three phases of golf skill learning.— Answer: True
Motor learning. has taken place when the improvements in skill
technique were caused by changes in motivation.— Answer: False
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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: False
What is an indication that learning has occurred?— Answer: Relative
permeant change
What is the basis on which instructors can make reliable inferences
that learning has taken place?— Answer: Permeant results in
experience and practice
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How does a student transfer golf skills learned in the cognitive phase
to play on the course in the intermediate learning phase?— Answer:
......
What increases as students transition from early to intermediate to the
advanced phase of learning?— Answer: Movement coordination
What is the definition of learning?— Answer: Relatively permeant
change
What would be a Transfer Test to determine learning?— Answer:
Taking time off and coming back
According to the 2004 Guadagnoli and Lee study, what is the optimal
challenge point?— Answer: Middle ground of challenge
According to Gentile's Model, what is the second stage of learning
called?— Answer: Fixation/diversification
Confidence is a performance characteristic that is observed as learning
takes place.— Answer: False
What should instructors limit to help students process information
from short term to long-term memory?— Answer: Chunks and cues
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Where does the ability to retrieve accomplished swing skills reside—
Answer: Long-term memory
What is the essential assumption of the basic information processing
model?— Answer: People are active processors of information
Fundamental movement skills should be the focus of pre-teen
training?(— Answer: True
Early success in golf for Juniors is the reliable predictor of long-term
success.— Answer: False
What should the learning environment emphasize when working with
early childhood students?— Answer: Experimentations with
movement and skills
What is the first thing an instructor should test when determining the
physical capabilities of a junior golfer?— Answer: Motor skills
Which exercises are best for evaluating a junior's movement
patterns?— Answer: Throwing, striking, running, skipping
What is likely being evaluated when an informed instructor asks a
junior golfer to throw or kick a ball?— Answer: Distance control
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