Lecture 10 - Practice Flashcards
When Organizing Practice, what must you decide on?
- Which skills to practice and how to practice them
- The order in which different skills are practised
- how long to practice each skill
- number and length of the practices
What is Constant Practice?
Practice sequence in which people rehearse only one variation of a given motor skill during a session
What is Variable Practice
Practice sequence in which people rehearse a number of variations of a given motor skill during a session
Is Constant of variable practice better, and why?
Variable practice is better - This is because it is associated with better performance during transfer as you are rehearsing different variations of the same GMP
What types of practice are Intra-skill and what is intra skill practice?
Constant and Variable Practice
Intra-skill practice is the practice of one skill
What is inter-Skill practice and what types of practice are associated with it?
Practicing several different skills
Blocked practice and Random Practice
What is Blocked Practice?
Practice sequence in which individuals repeatedly rehearse the same skill before moving to the next skill
What is Random Practice?
Practice sequence in which individuals perform a number of different skills in no particular order
- Requires more than one skill
- avoid or minimize consecutive repetitions of any single skill
Which Inter skill practice is better? Why?
Random practice is better because it has better retention and transfer of learning than blocked practice
- These schedules have the same amount of practice but different schedules(different order)
T or F - many repetitions in practice are essential for learning and repetitiveness in practice is the most effective.
False - repetitive in practice isn’t effective
What is contextual interference?
Interference that results from performing different skills within the context of practice
Explain the elaboration hypothesis for the CI effect
Random Practice - learners appreciate distinctiveness of the different skills making each skill more meaningful in memory and easier to retrieve
Blocked Practice - learner bypasses these comparisons
Explain the forgetting hypothesis of the CI effect
Random Practice - as learners shift from skill A to B, they forget what they did on skill A while figuring out skill B, then when they attempt skill A again, they need to generate the plan for that skill all over again - must repeatedly relearn each skill
Blocked Practice - learners simply use same plan that was used on the first attempt for all subsequent attempts
Connect TIE relationship and practice scheduling
Practice should be directed to the target skill and target context while following any constraints
What are the two ways of distributing practice?
Massed practice and Distributed Practice
