Schema Theory

1. Initial Conditions -

• Taking in information from the environment
• What can I see?/Where is my opponent?

2. Response Specification -

• Select appropriate motor programme from long-term memory
• What do I need to do?

3. Sensory Consequences -

• intrinsic feedback, kinaesthetic feel and knowledge of results
• How did that feel?

4. Response Outcome -

• Knowledge of results
• Motor programme is adapted if successful
• Motor programme is adjusted if unsuccessful
• Was it successful?

Overlearn the fundamentals - builds a good general motor programme

Varied practice - change the intial conditions to develop schema

Feedback - should be frequent, positive and highlight when to use

Realistic - should transfer to performance

"Using memory to update, adapt and modify the motor programmes."

The Schema theory is taking a generalised motor programme and adpating it to produce a novel response.