Learning & Performance Flashcards
Fitts and Posner’s 3 stage model of learning:
Cognitive stage - development of basic patterns
Associative stage - refinement of movement pattern
Autonomous stage - performance of movement virtually automatic
Main characteristics of cognitive stage are:
- Technical information crucial, to develop appropriate motor programme
- Mental image, demonstrations, guidance and key cues
- Visualisation - making it more relevant
- Reinforcement
- Breaking the skill down into key components
- Various mistakes
- Command style of teaching
- Full attention on performance
Main characteristics of associative stage:
- Performance close to the correct model
- Rapid improvement
- More efficient and aesthetically pleasing skill
- More complex feedback
- Training became more varied and competitive
- Specific teaching points
- Able to detect mistakes and correct them
- Intrinsic and kinaesthetic feedback
Main characteristics of autonomous stage:
- Perform without thinking
- Performance looks effortless
- Skills and information processed easily
- Concentrate on higher level strategies, tactics, decision making
- Elite level
- Consistent technique
- Little thought
- No focus on technique - ingrained and consistent
- Self-evaluation
Intrinsic/internal/inherited feedback is…
Feedback that the performer receives from proprioceptors (state of muscle contraction, joint position)
Known as KINAESTHETIC feedback
Extrinsic/External/Augmented feedback:
Feedback that is received from the outside through our senses, often given by coaches, teammates, teachers
Linked to knowledge of results
Positive feedback is…
Feedback received when performance or the performer has been successful
Strengthens the likelihood of the action being repeated
Negative feedback is…
Received after unsuccessful performance
Can be internal or external
Terminal feedback is…
Feedback given after the performance
May be delayed
Concurrent/contiguous feedback is…
Feedback received during performance
Often internal from proprioceptors
Could also be from a coach
Feedback at cognitive stage is:
Positive External Terminal Knowledge of results Right or wrong
Feedback at associative stage is:
Positive/negative
Internal/external
Terminal/concurrent
Feedback at autonomous stage is:
Internal Negative Concurrent Knowledge of performance Critical of how they perform
A learning plateau is a …
Period of no improvement in performance
A learning plateau occurs when a learner…
Stops progressing and no improvement is evident