10/31/17

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The Learning of Motor

Skills
Chapter 5

Motor Learning -
Review

ART

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ART - Review
• Acquisition
• Performance curves
•Shape & Rates à
slopes
• Law of practice

ART - Review
• Retention
• Limiting performance
variables
• Transfer
• Target skill and target
context
• +, - or neutral?
• Identical elements or
common cognitive
(TAPS)

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Memory and Learning

Chapter 6

Memory - Review
• Cognitive vs.
Dynamical Theory
• Convergence Centers à
Top-down
• Emergence à Bottom-
up
• Plasticity
• Short-term à
Functional
• Long-term à Structural

Memory Systems -
Review
• Declarative
• Semantic & Episodic
•K.C. à Retrograde
amnesia for episodic
•M.L. à Retrograde for
episodic and semantic
• Procedural
• H.M. à Anterograde
amnesia…but
• “Choking”

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Stages of Memory -
Review
• Sensory Memory
• Organization à
Encoding à “Registers”
• STM
• WM vs. passive storage
• Chunking
• LTM
• Encoding à
Consolidation

Consolidation - Review

Phelps, 2004

Forgetting and
Encoding Specificity –
Review

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Stages of Learning

Chapter 7

Fitts-Posner 3-stage
Model - Review
• Cognitive-
based
• Declarative à
Procedural

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Vereijken 3-stage Model

- Review
• Dynamical Systems
• Constraints +
Emergence à
Attractors….Skills

AFFORDANCES

Experts - Review
• Expert/Elite = Motor +
Perceptual + Cognitive
• Most Characteristics = Motor Perceptual Cognitive

Perceptual & Cognitive

• 10-year/10,000 hours min
• Deliberate practice
• Predicting across stages

Characteristics of Expert -
Review
• Pattern Recognition • Perception of essential
• Fast and accurate kinematic information
• Superior knowledge • Less effortful and
• Semantic and automatic
procedural • Consistent and
• Structured knowledge adaptable
• Situational probability • Self-monitoring skills
knowledge
• Advanced planning
• Anticipation

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Individual Differences

Chapter 8

Traits - Review

Environmental
Genetics Experiences

Nature Nurture

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Motor Abilities - Review

Abilities and Skills -

Review

Factors for Skills -

Review

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