Bilateral transfer
What Bilateral transfer means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Practising with one limb improves the opposite limb, such as a right-footed pass improving left-footed control.
Learning is transferred from one limb to the other.
Topics that use Bilateral transfer
- Skill, skill continuums and transfer of skills (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Classification of skills
- Continuum placement and justification
- Discrete–serial–continuous continuum
- Goal-directed behaviour
- High and low organisation
- Muscle-group size
- Negative transfer
- Open skill
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