Name: Angilyn V.

Lagatic

A Taxonomy is a Classification System. A number of Taxonomies for motor

Skills exist based upon:

Level of Precision - refers to how close estimates from different samples

are to each other. For example, the standard error is a measure of precision.
When the standard error is small, sample estimates are more precise; when
the standard error is large, sample estimates are less precise.

 Fine Motor Skill – involving very precise movements normally accomplished

using smaller musculature (cutting, drawing, writing etc.)

 Gross Motor Skill – Places less emphasis on precision and is typically the
result of multi-limb movements (enhanced through large muscle Perceptual
Motor Programs)

Task Organization - In motor learning, task complexity has been recently

defined as the number of movement segments, whereas task organization
refers to the temporal relationship between the composite movement
segments.

Predictability of the performance environment

 Closed - Performed in environments that are very stable and predictable.

Instruction emphasizes consistency and refinement of technique ex. Drills

 Open - Performed in unpredictable, everchanging environments (major

games, road cycling). Instruction and practice should emphasizes
development of capacity to respond to ever-changing demands of the
environment (practice in game situation, not just specific skills drills)

Gentile’s multi-dimensional system Precision of Movement.

Regulatory conditions - Environmental factors that specify the movement

characteristics necessary to successfully perform a skill

1. Are the regulatory conditions stable (throwing a ball at a targetless

complex processes to assess the environment) or in motion (throwing a ball
to a moving player- more complex processes)