Philippine Normal University

National Center for Teacher Education

Multicultural Education Hub
Prosperidad, Agusan Del Sur

Name: Demmy Rose C. Espina BPHED-III

Course instructor: Dr. Edelberta C. Goce
Final Tasks

Task 1: Explain briefly each stage of learning that people pass through when acquiring
motor skills.

There are three stages of learning a motor skill and these are the cognitive stage,
associative stage and, the autonomous stage. It was called as the Fitts and Posner Three-
Stage Model. In the first stage, movements are slow, inconsistent and inefficient and some
sections of the movement are regulated consciously. Since it is a cognitive stage, it only
focuses on what to do and how to perform it. There are many mistakes and errors and the
learner may not know what to improve in the skill. In the second stage, movements become
more fluid, reliable and effective, and certain parts of the movement are regulated
automatically. This is called associative stage because the learners associate specific
environmental cues with the movements required to achieve the goal of the skill. Lastly, is
the autonomous stage. Movements are precise, consistent and productive in the third stage,
and movement is largely controlled automatically. People at this point do not consciously
think about their movements when performing the skill because they are capable of doing
so without thinking.

Task 2: Does everyone go through the same stages of learning when acquiring motor skills?

Despite the fact that motor skills differ greatly in terms of form and difficulty, the
learning process that people go through while learning them is the same. The amount of
attention we need to allocate to the performance of the skill seems to be the one that changes
dramatically as we gain more experience from it. A person that learns a motor skill may
not be able to go directly to the last stage where he or she has mastered the performance in
just petite practice but first it would make a lot of mistakes and from that, it will help him
or her learn the skill. Learning is a process thus, I think everyone does go through the same
stages in learning a motor skill. It just depends on how much time and effort an individual
put into the practice and the more practice the learner spends, it will be quick to learn it.