01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Motor Skill

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Concept: mental practice can be effective for learning and relearning motor skills and for preparing to perform motor skills. Definition: the cognitive rehearsal of a physical skill in the absence of overt physical movements; it can take the form of: Thinking about the cognitive or procedural aspects of a motor skills or. Engaging in visual or kinesthetic imagery of the performance of a skill or part of a skill. Practicing mentally in your head- imaging what you want to happen. See and feel yourself scoring a basket. Research has investigated two distinct roles for mental practice. A practice strategy to aid the acquisition of motor skills. A means of preparing to perform a well-learned skill. Use of combination of physical and mental practice often involves only half as many physical practice trials as physical practice only. To determine the influence of mental practice on skill learning, researchers have typically compared three practice conditions:

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