PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Modus Tollens, Modus Ponens, Basal Ganglia
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Skill acquisition and expertise three primary stages: cognitive (effortful, conscious, mistakes, associative (fine-tuning, quality increasing and effort decreasing, autonomous (expertise, skill is done really well without thinking much) skill acquisition. Power law for skill acquisition is a lot like law (steep negative slope) Kolers and perkins (1975: reading words upside down becomes a lot easier with practice, and reading upside down a year after mastering it is a lot easier even though you haven"t practiced for a year. Chase and simon (1973: studied experts of chess to see if it makes you smarter (better at learning) They set up chess boards with random assortment of pieces and organized assortments to test the encoding of patterns in the chess experts. Statistically significant: the better you are at chess, the more chess patterns you know. Chess experts had higher quality of chunking otherwise their intelligence wasn"t boosted by chess in any applicably special way. Chase and ericcson: random digit sequences (digits forward)
