PSY372H1 Lecture Notes - Implicit Memory, Metamemory, Episodic Memory
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Skill acquisition: difficult to describe it in words (x convey, acquired without awareness, requires several repetitions. Has content that"s consciously accessible: broadly speaking, skills can be categorized as open" or closed", closed skills are highly choreographed or sequential; there"s little wiggle room for performance. Taking a shot is an open skill since he can do different actions. Disrupt cognitive rehearsal so experts did better in dual task than novices: beilock et al (2004): Accuracy instructions deliberate processes; novices focus on verbalized instructions in cognitive stage so they did better than experts. Experts remember better in chess arrangements than novices; but they remember fewer alternatives to the one they ultimately chose compared with novices. However, identical twins performed much more similarly than fraternal twins. Rate of skill acquisition: power law of learning: performance improves rapidly at first, at slowly diminishing returns, well-known skills exhibit the power law when feedback is given.
