Exam 14: Demonstration and Verbal Instructions

Demonstration should be the preferred method of providing information about how to perform a motor skill.

A neurological basis for the learning benefit of observational learning has been established by the discovery of ________ neurons in the brain.

Learners need to see a model's relative motions to reproduce them.

Research has shown that beginners who observe other beginners practicing a skill will perform at a higher level when they begin to perform the skill than the beginners they observed.

An experiment by Green and Flowers, which had participants learn a computer-based catching task, showed that explicit verbal instructions about the rules underlying the movement of the "ball" were better for learning the skill than instructions that established a discovery learning situation.

Research supporting the cognitive mediation theory of the benefit of demonstration has shown that observational learning involves the development of effective error detection and correction.

When learners are able to self-select when they receive a demonstration, they request demonstrations very infrequently.

A term that has been used to describe the type of learning involved when a visual model is used to demonstrate a skill is ________ learning.

The short-term benefit derived from using demonstrations could be outweighed by the long-term negative consequence of making the learner a less effective problem solver.

Which of the following has research shown is not what the observer of a skilled demonstration perceives and uses to improve performance?

A procedure that some researchers use to investigate the question of what an observer perceives when observing a demonstration is known as the:

The point-light technique is a procedure that researchers have used to support the hypothesis that observers of skilled demonstrations can detect invariant relationships in coordinated movement.

The view of why modeling benefits skill learning that argues that the visual system is capable of automatically processing visual information and constraining the motor system to act accordingly is called the ________ view.

In experiments in which participants manually tracked a complex pattern that consisted of two segments that were random patterns on every trial and one segment that was the same every trial, the results showed that the participants improved:

The reversion to a highly conscious form of information processing when the learner is put under pressure is referred to as:

Verbal ________ given along with a demonstration can supplement the visual information and help a person better understand how to perform skills.

It is important that the verbal instructions given to a beginner should not exceed that person's limited ________ capacity to attend to information.

Verbal cues said out loud while a person is learning or performing a skill can help: