PSYC 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Chess Title, Perceptual Learning, Implicit Learning
21 Feb 2017
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Like a semantic memory, skill memory are long lasting and improved by repeated exposures. May be acquired and retrieved without conscious awareness. Skill: the ability to perform a tasked that has been honed through learning. Skills are classified as a non-declarative memory by psychologists: not easily put into words. Skill learning is also sometimes referred to as procedural learning. The most common ways to learn a skill is by practice and the observing others performing skills. Operant conditioning: an effective way to train new skills; also used in animal training. Contemporary researchers generally classify skills into two basic types: perceptual motor skills and cognitive skills. Perceptual-motor skills: learned movement patterns guided by sensory inputs: requires significant voluntary control of movements, ex. Dancing; performance of consistent sequences of movements in a prescribed way. Closed skills: performance of a predefined sequence of movements: ex. ballet.
