Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paul Fitts, Human Factors And Ergonomics, Systems Engineering
16 Dec 2016
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A set of internal processes associated with practice or experience leading to a relatively permanent gain in performance capability. One critical feature of the definition is that it is a relatively permanent gain. If the gain is not permanent, then this is called a performance effect, a learning effect is permanent. Assume there is a mirror task, where everything is inverted. They can practice for an hour, they get better. 24 hours later, their performance may be the same as the first trial on the previous day, then this is a performance effect. If there was a learning effect, then on day 2, the performance should be somewhat above the first trial performance on day 1. For certain, a learning effect is more difficult to develop then to get the performance effect. If you"re a coach teachi(cid:374)g people to perfor(cid:373) a (cid:374)ew skill, you want to make sure that they are learning, not a performance effect.
