PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Suzuki Method, Sight-Reading, New York City Opera

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

Document Summary

During our gradeschool years, we get about 5000 hours of deliberate practice during school. Homework (if it"s designed correctly) is also deliberate practice. Basic skills have to do with notetaking and organizing and reorganizing information. Deliberate practice for a researcher is reading an article 4 times over and over, zeroing in on teh method and results to see exactly how they did things. As they get older, what happens to experts? some peak at the age you"d expect, but some do not. Ericsson acknowledges that the taller you are, the more likely you are to be a good basketball player, but this is not completely necessary. What nash is doing is pretty exceptional. Another study on the effects of expert performance in age-related declines in motor speed. Brought in 20- and 50-year old pianists and gave them either a piano-related task or just a speed task. a.