Exam 12: The Stages of Learning

An important change in muscle activity that results from practice is that the activation pattern for agonist and antagonist muscle pairs becomes more ________ from trial to trial.

Performing a skill with a minimum expenditure of energy is usually associated with which stage of learning?

According to Gentile,the characteristics of an object that specify the movement characteristics required for grasping it are called ________ conditions.

According to Gentile's model,the goal of diversification in the second stage of learning is specifically related to ________ motor skills.

If a skill is performed efficiently,then it is being performed with a minimum amount of expended ________.

Research indicates that skilled performers direct their visual attention more quickly to ________ conditions in the environment than novices.

When a person learning handwriting moves the three arm segments as if two of the segments were one,this person demonstrates an early learning characteristic known as:

Patterns of coordination can be organized to exploit passive forces and minimize energy costs.

A characteristic of changes in the coordination among limb segments during the learning stages is the development of more inter-segmental ________ as learning progresses from early to later stages.

The number of degrees of freedom and the complexity of the underlying control mechanism can either increase or decrease during learning.

A performer characteristic that does not change across the stages of learning is the reliance on the sensory information that was available during the early stage.

Experts are similar to novices in how they use visual information to anticipate the actions of others.

The negatively accelerated rate of improvement,which is typical of performance changes for beginners learning a skill,has been mathematically formalized and is known as the _______ law of practice.

The brain areas that are active during the early stage of learning are typically: