PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Myocyte, Mario Lemieux, 18 Months
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If you want to win marathon, you need slow twitch muscle fibers. Psychotherapy: lots of things to do in deliberate practice, recording yourself, constantly getting feedback, it"s awful, you almost never want to do it again, which is bad. Ericsson says you need to continue deliberate practice. In domains like this people get better every year constantly beating records. Ericsson response: suzuki teachers think it all depends on who the teacher is, hard to do randomized control trials with this! You don"t want to assign a control group . It"s hockey related stimuli that they have better peripheral vision. What about phelps: his morphological advantage is all because of early training, no, they are not gifted, they just dedicated themselves from a very young age, phelps can do certain things because of his training. When you stop training your muscles get smaller. Sometimes there is a critical period: yes for gymnastics and ballet (for flexibility reasons)