Stages of

Psychomotor Learning
Development
Manadong, James C.
IPE-01-601 A
• Understanding the stages of psychomotor
learning development would guide athletes to
progress from the neophyte stage to an advanced
level. Moreover whenever learning new athletic
movement there is a level of frustration that
hinders growth.
Cognitive Stage
• The cognitive is marked by awkward
slow movements that the athlete is
consciously trying to control. He or
she has to think before doing the
movement.
Associative Stage
• The associative stage makes the athletes
spend less thinking about every details
and begins to associate the movement he
is learning with another movements that
he already knows. This is the middle
stage of psychomotor development with
which movements are not yet a
permanent part of the brain.
Autonomous Stage
• Is reached when learning is almost
complete, although an individual can
continue to refine skill through
practice. In this stage, an athlete is no
longer needed to depend on the coach
for all feedback about performance.
The learner has practiced the
movement ten thousand times.
Elements
of Practice
 Blocked Versus Random Practice

• Blocked practice means • Random Practice is

all the tryouts of a given present in a more
task are completed difficult environment for
before moving on to the the athlete because of the
next task. switching task.
Constant Versus Variable Practice

• Maintaining constant • Changing environmental

environmental conditions so the variables in order to force the
player may put all of their focus athletes to adopt to new demands.
on the task at hand.
 Whole Versus Part Practice
• Whole practice requires that
the athletes practice the activity
or skill in it’s entirely as a
single unit.
• Part practice necessitates that the
athletes practice each component
of the activity or skill separately
and then combine the parts into
the whole skill.
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