Skilled Performance - Motor Learning

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Skilled Performance -Motor Learning

• KINE 3020 3.0

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Description

• This course is an introduction to the
  psychological principles and experimental methods
  employed in the study of skilled performance from
  the point of view of the information-processing
  model, which will be discussed in lectures and
  demonstrated in the laboratory. 

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Topic 1 Basic concepts - Purpose of course

• 1). Understand some of the major principles
  governing human performance and the acquisition
  of skill (learning)
• from the point of view of the information
  processing model

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Learning plateau
Cause Cure
Poor technique preventing improvement, e.g.
straddle vs. flop
Reorganize skill - analyse in terms of info
processing
Poor motivation
Apply appropriate reinforcers - analyse in terms
of beh. modification
Elite athlete approaching limits - ceiling or
floor effect
Explain concept of slow improvement -
apply appropriate reinforcers
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Power law of practice
Log
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
1 10 100
Natural
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Trials
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1000