ENS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Motor Learning, Motor Skill, Learning Disability
15 Apr 2020
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Lecture 15: motor learning concepts and research methods. The effects of practice and experience on performance. Understand the variables that determine gains in proficiency. A set of processes associated with practice of experience leading to relatively permanent changes in the capability for skilled movement . A set of events or occurrences lead to a particular product, a state or change. The focus is on what happens when we practice and acquire new skills. Learning occurs as a direct set of practice or experience. The processes involved in learning generates a product or internal state (increases capability for moving skillfully) The goal of practice is to increase capability. If capability is strong skilled behavior may occur But only if other surrounding factors are present (ex. Both are related, but not the same. Some factors may affect performance even if learning has occurred. The processes that underlie the changes in capability are highly complex.
