KIN 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Internal Standard, Motor Skill
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There are many factors, other than learning, that can affect. The following are some examples: performance: reflexes, luck, maturation, strong teammates, motivation/incentives. Key idea: there can be a change in performance when there is no learning, but at other times there can be learning without a change in performance! The challenge is that it"s hard to identify the cause of observable behaviour. The challenge is that we cannot observe learning directly; therefore, we need a lot of evidence to know if learning is occurring. Change over time: therefore, we need to observe people over time. More consistent performance: the same movement patterns are performed consistently. Change is relatively permanent: not many big slips backwards. Stage 1: cognitive stage: a large number of errors, gross errors, large, catastrophic, highly variable performance, often a lot of new strategies are attempted, high cognitive involvement, the information processing demands are very high. Another key idea is that learning occurs through practice.
