Exam 16: Practice Variability and Specificity

The guideline for implementing practice variability for the learning of open skills is to vary both regulatory and nonregulatory conditions.

Research has shown that people who practice in a blocked practice schedule tend to overestimate how well they are learning during practice.

A schedule that organizes the practice of several skill variations in a serial order is an example of a practice schedule that involves a low amount of contextual interference.

For open skills, regulatory conditions:

The especial skills effect:

Hall and colleagues (1994) demonstrated that the contextual interference effect is:

According to Gentile's learning model, to practice an open skill it is essential to vary the ________ conditions related to the skill.

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

The hypothesis that explains the contextual interference effect based on the argument that between-trial interference causes individuals to forget critical information encoded on the previous trial is the:

The explanation of the contextual interference effect that proposes that the benefit of a random practice schedule is that variations of the skill can be simultaneously compared and contrasted in working memory is known as the ________ hypothesis.

When a person experiences a practice condition where the likelihood of making errors early in practice is high, transfer performance is generally:

A limitation of the contextual interference effect is that it has been demonstrated in laboratory conditions but not in conditions outside the laboratory.