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Motor Abilities Motor Ability Is A Trait That Specifically Supports The Performance of Motor Skills

Motor ability is a genetically determined trait that underlies and supports the performance of motor skills. There are four key features of motor ability: they are determined at birth, stable throughout one's life, support the performance of skills as building blocks, and can be manifested across different skill situations. Motor abilities act as limiting factors for skills, as not all abilities are equally important for a given skill. Motor abilities differ from motor skills in that abilities are stable and inherited while skills are changeable through practice, there are fewer abilities than skills, and abilities are not directly observable while skills produce behaviors.

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Motor Abilities Motor Ability Is A Trait That Specifically Supports The Performance of Motor Skills

Motor ability is a genetically determined trait that underlies and supports the performance of motor skills. There are four key features of motor ability: they are determined at birth, stable throughout one's life, support the performance of skills as building blocks, and can be manifested across different skill situations. Motor abilities act as limiting factors for skills, as not all abilities are equally important for a given skill. Motor abilities differ from motor skills in that abilities are stable and inherited while skills are changeable through practice, there are fewer abilities than skills, and abilities are not directly observable while skills produce behaviors.

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MOTOR ABILITIES

Motor Ability is a trait that specifically supports the performance of motor skills.

4 features of Motor Ability

1. Genetically determined – Motor abilities are determined at conception


2. Stable and Enduring - They do not change over the course of a persons lifespan
3. Underlie or supports the performance of the skill – Motor abilities are considered
the building blocks of motor skills.
4. Trans-situational – A given motor ability may be manifested in a wide variety of
skills situation.

*few examples of motor skills that includes different motor abilities

 Weighlifting – static strength


 Gymnastic movement (walkover)- extent flexibility
 Sprinting- reaction time

MOTOR ABILITIES AS A LIMITING FACTORS FOR SKILLS

In the process of building up motor skills by drawing on the resources of one’s underlying
motor abilities, not all motor abilities are important, or at least as equally important for a skill.

*SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MOTOR ABILITIES AND MOTOR SKILLS

Abilities Skills
Stable, cannot be changed Changeable, can be improved with practice
Inherited, genetically determined Acquired through practice or experience
Relatively few (40-50?) Many (1,000s)
People possess all abilities People possess relatively few of the many skills
available
Supports the performance of the skill Depend on differing subsets of abilities
Not directly observable of manifested as behaviors Observable and manifested as behaviors
Do not act directly on environment Act directly on environment

In fact, Most Motor abilities are important, or as equally important, to all skills and most
motor skills probably depend on no more than a few motor abilities for their performance.

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