01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Overlearning, Motor Learning, Diminishing Returns
11 Jan 2018
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Concept: the amount of practice and the spacing or distribution of that practice can affect both practice performance and learning of motor skills. Overlearning: continuation of practice beyond the amount needed to achieve a certain performance criterion. Research has shown that overlearning can have a positive influence on retention performance for motor learning skills. The more you learn skills the better you are able to retain them. Research literature review by driskell et. al (1992) Point of diminishing returns- point at which the increase stops and there is no more return there is no more improvement and it has leveled off. Examples of overlearning strategy applied to types of motor skills. Skills that include a combination of cognitive and motor components and require performance of a series of relatively simple movements. U. s. army sponsored research found overlearning strategy (200% more trials) effective for long- term retention of assembling a rifle.
