APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Retrograde Amnesia, Tennis Ball, Motor Learning
22 Nov 2018
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Mini test- review: an internal focus of attention is more effective for learning and performing motor skills than an external focus of attention. Take tennis ball and knock barriers in the pattern outlines. Block practice is practicing the different patterns on after the other. When they used block practice they did better. For retention test, the random group did better. We do retention test because performance curves can be misleading. Think about task a is different from task b. These differences are examples of your elaboration process. Keeping information from the movement in the working memory and comparing it to previous movements done. People who practiced in a random fashion had names for different patterns. When asked about comparisons between the task, they found that people in the random group compared the task more often. Allows you to remember it better the next time.
