RE: Discussion 4 Faculty Lippard 10/28/2013 2:57:44 PM

Thanks June for getting this in! Can you talk about how your experience was with completing the star tracing activity? Also, can you talk about why Schmidt’s theory relates to the star tracing activity? How does it fit the best of the three theories? Finally, what type of motor skill have you learned or seen someone else learn that you can relate to this activity of the star tracing? Looking forward to reading more! Heather Respond

RE: Discussion 4 Vincent Davis 10/29/2013 10:58:19 PM

Amanda, I feel that I am a slow learner yet when I do eventually learn a task and integrate it into my daily behavior, I quickly master it and I feel that this was the case with this star tracing activity.  This is why I felt that Adam’s Two-Stage Theory closely mirrors the processes that we needed to go through in order to become better at the skill.  “Adams proposed that an important part of the learning of such a skill is the development of an appropriate perceptual trace” (Mazur, 2006).  My perceptual trace is strengthened through constant and continuous completion of said task, yet it takes me a bit longer at times.  Amanda, can you think of a time where you learned a task at a much slower pace than your friends or fellow classmates and how did that make you feel? References Mazur, J. E.  (2006).  Learning and Behavior 6 th Edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, Inc. Respond

RE: Discussion 4 Alexandra Cooley 10/29/2013 11:10:47 PM

I agree that Schmidt’s theory fits best with this motor skill test. What about it connected your thoughts with Schmidt’s theory and the test? Respond

RE: Discussion 4 Amber Chrobak 10/29/2013 11:48:35 PM

Amanda, Good job with your post. However, I would have to disagree with your choice of which theory of motor-skill learning best fits this activity. It is my personal opinion that based on the readings for this module the theory of motor-skill learning that best fits this activity would be Jack A. Adams’s two-stage theory. In this theory according to Adams when someone learns a new motor skill the perceptual trace or reference input is not yet there (Mazur, 2006). For instance, in this activity, which is similar to the example of the 3-inch line drawling in the book, in the beginning of the activity one knows that they must trace the star but does not know what it feels like to trace it. In Adams’s theory he believed that the perceptual trace is “key” in the learning of a new skill such as this. According to Mazur (2006) the perceptual trace is supposedly a result of the memory of the sensations provided by sensory neurons of muscles within the arm and hand when the appropriate length or in this case appropriate length of each line needed to form the star has been drawn.   The second stage of Adams’s two- stage theory is the motor stage in which a person relies on perceptual trace for accuracy of movement without having outside knowledge of results (KC) which originally would have come from the first stage of Adams’s theory: verbal- motor stage. In this stage for someone to improve they rely on feedback from, usually a verbal form but in this case it would have been from being able to see ones errors after each trial. It is through this constant feedback one learns KC (Mazur, 2006). Schmidt proposed, to deal with more flexible motor skills, like the motor skills needed to play tennis that requires different movements all the time, which people can acquire general rules (which he called schemas) as they practice (Mazur, 2006). This is not the case with this activity; it is simply the same movements each time you do it. Playing tennis, which is one of the examples given by the book, requires the player to form perceptual schemas because they learn how hard to hit the ball for certain movements and distances according to Schmidt. Does my explanation why I do not believe the theory you chose fits this activity? What are your thoughts? Why do you believe the theory you chose fits better than the one I chose? References Mazur, J. E. (2006). Learning and behavior. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. Retrieved from http://digitalbookshelf.argosy.edu/#/books/0558220231/pages/48393079 Thanks, Amber

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