Exam 16: Practice Variability and Specificity

According to Gentile, variable practice experiences for closed skills should focus on varying:

According to Proteau's hypothesis about the specificity of learning, motor skill learning is specific to the sources of ________ information available during practice.

Research suggests that blocked practice consistently leads to poor performance:

An example of a type of practice that fits well with the view that errors can benefit learning is commonly referred to as ________.

Which of the following situations does not support the specificity of practice hypothesis?

The term that means "what we know about what we know" and is used in reference to people making judgments about how much they are learning is ________.

Goode and Magill (1986) found that a ______________ practice schedule facilitated the retention and transfer of badminton service skills.

Regulatory conditions in a motor skill performance situation include:

Contextual interference can be considered as a continuum ranging from low to high for the amount of interference created by the practice schedule. Which of the following describes a low-to-high continuum of practice schedules?

Examination of brain activity associated with blocked and random practice provides support for:

The practice schedule that involves the lowest amount of contextual interference is the ________ practice schedule.

Experiments designed to demonstrate the benefit of practice variability typically compare the retention test performance of a constant practice condition and a variable practice condition.

In the contextual interference experiment by Lee and Magill, the practice schedule that yielded the same results as the random schedule was the ________ practice schedule.

When different levels of contextual interference during motor skill practice are compared, results typically show that:

"Home field advantage" can be explained in part by what we know about incidental learning as it relates to the environmental context.

A limitation of the contextual interference effect is that it applies only to beginners and not to skilled performers of motor skills.

Research evidence has provided support for both the elaboration and action-plan reconstruction hypotheses that have been proposed to account for the contextual interference effect.

The term practice variability refers to the variety of movement and context characteristics the learner experiences while practicing a skill.

Simon and Bjork (2001) found that when participants were asked to judge their performances on a retention test, participants who experienced a blocked schedule typically:

Research has shown that beginning badminton players learned the long, short, and drive serves best when they followed a ________ schedule to practice the serves.