Chapter 17 Flashcards
Which type of skill benefits the most from overlearning?
Procedural Skills
Practice that continues beyond the amount needed to achieve a certain performance criterion.
Overlearning
When increasing the amount of additional practice is no proportionally more beneficial to retention performance.
Point of Diminishing Returns
How can overlearning lead to poor performance?
Participants will get bored and brain will basically shut off or stop paying attention.
A practice schedule in which the amount of rest between practice sessions or trials is very short.
Massed Practice
A practice schedule in which the amount of rest between practice sessions or trials is relatively long.
Distributed Practice
Continuous skills benefit more from _ while discrete skills benefit more from _.
Distributed Practice
Massed Practice
What are the three arguments that distributed practice is better than massed practice?
1) avoids fatigue
2) keeps cognitive effort high
3) memory consolidation
It is better to have many sessions of short practice instead of few sessions over a long period. True or False?
True
An explanation for distributed practice; neuro-biomechanical processes occurring during a period of no practice to facilitate long-term storage of information.
Memory Consolidation
