PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Backhand, Standardized Test, Wayne Gretzky

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

The relevance of research on experise to our everyday lives. We keep pracicing and then don"t get further. We think we hit our limits in terms of natural ability. Early theories will suggest yes, geneic limits, you hit a plateau. Bball was the one he was most intrinsically moivated. Involved in organized sports around 10- and realized he was the best for his age. Real chances at being an expert will usually be best not just for age but people older than you and not just in local place, but in county (in terms of predicing naional level experise and such). Freshman hs team- he tried out and was the best year of his life because he really improved. He reached a level he could never atain in basketball. So happened that the hs gym had varsity and junior team played there. The basketball the freshman team was very small.