KNES 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Memory Consolidation, Breaststroke, Motor Skill
18 Sep 2016
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Effects of practice on motor performance and learning. Explain the effects of the following practice variables" on the learning and performance of different motor skills: variability, schedule, distribution, skill decomposition. To increase our capability of performing a skill in future situations (retention and/or transfer) Critical issue: not an infinite amount of time to practice. The variety of movement or context characteristics experienced during practice of a skill. Most theoretical stances embrace variability in practice: handford et al (1996): optimal task solutions through discovery learning in the perceptual motor workspace. Variability in practice is beneficial for skill learning: gentile (1972): 1 to distinguish between regulatory and non-regulatory conditions. 2 diversification in second stage of learning. Stage 1: getting the idea of the movement: the learner organizes movement pattern by delimiting the potential muscular responses in tune with the demand of the environment, must discriminate: Regulatory conditions: environmental features which specify how movement must be performed.
