Fitts and Posner's three-stage model of motor learning is based on a learner's progression from
A. an explicit to an implicit knowledge of skills.
B. the control of few to many degrees of freedom.
C. semantic to episodic memory.
D. declarative to procedural memory.
Question 2When learning a motor skill, everyone progresses through
A. a unique series of learning stages.
B. the same stages of learning though at different rates.
C. the same stages of learning at the same rate.
D. some of the same stages of learning though not necessarily alldepending on individual capabilities.
Question 3A coach having his team practice on the same court on which they will play games, as well as attempting as closely as possible to duplicate game-like conditions, is applying the memory principle of ____________________.
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Question 4A therapist who briefly presents a new movement pattern to her patients at the end of one practice session to help them get the idea of the new movement, along with the statement We'll be practicing this movement next time, is most likely employing the memory and learning technique called
Question 5According to most memory experts, the storage capacity of short-term memory, referred to as the magic number, is
Question 6According to some motor-learning theorists, memory for skills is the process of learning to perceive and distinguish among various opportunities for action available to a performer (i.e., learning what the environment will allow us to do and which of the many actions available will be most effective in a given situation). In this perspective, such opportunities for action are called ____________________. (Hint: Boschker, Bakken, and Michaels explored these in their experiment on the skill of wall-climbing.)
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Question 7What is the term coined by Beilock and Carr to describe the tendency for highly skilled performers to exclude episodic monitoring during the execution of skills, a tendency that can result in choking during performance if their conscious attention is drawn to their ongoing performance?
Question 8Identify the memory system that allows you to ride a bicycle while at the same time searching for a specific street address.
Question 9A long-term memory system that is specialized to contain rule-based memories for performing skills such as driving a car, playing a flute, or throwing a ball, and which can be retrieved and used without a specific conscious awareness of those rules, is called the ____________ memory system.
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