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Peer reviewedMacKay, Donald G. – Psychological Review, 1982
A theory of practice in high-proficiency skills such as speech production is proposed, involving activation of a hierarchy of nodes in serial order within an output system of behavior. Increased flexibility with practice, response mechanism transfer in skills, motor equivalence, automaticity, and speed-accuracy trade-off are discussed. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Motor Development, Responses
Download full textBrainerd, Charles J. – 1974
Studies concerned with the synchronous emergence prediction of Piaget's structures-of-the-whole principle are discussed in conjunction with three groups of concrete-operational skills: (1) transitivity/conservation/class inclusion; (2) double classification/double seriation; and (3) ordinal, cardinal, and natural number concepts. Findings show…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes
