Exam 14: Demonstration and Verbal Instructions

To help beginning dancers learn the rhythmic structure of a dance routine,either auditory or visual demonstration will be similarly effective for learning.

The view that modeling benefits skill learning because the model helps the learner develop an accessible representation in memory that will serve as a guide for performing the skill is known as the:

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

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:

From a perception point of view,the benefit of observing a skilled demonstration is that the visual system picks up information about the ________ characteristics of the skill.

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

The ________ hypothesis is the most likely explanation for the research finding that verbal instructions that direct attention to specific movements of a skill hinder learning.

Observing skilled demonstrations is least likely to be better than verbal instructions for the learning of skills for which new ________ characteristics are learned.

A beginner can benefit from observing another beginner practice a skill especially when the observer can:

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

Observation of another beginner practicing a skill seems to work best when the observer can hear the ________ given by the instructor.

Learners can acquire a new pattern of relative motions when a demonstration contains:

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

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

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.

Research investigating the influence of the frequency of demonstrating a skill has shown that:

Which of the following describes the results of research on the use of verbal instructions that direct attention to specific movement components of a skill? The instructions:

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

The role that implicit learning can play in the learning of open motor skills has been shown by research which has demonstrated the learning of environmental context ________ conditions without the learner being consciously aware of the characteristics of those conditions.

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.