Please answer to the following questions, about chapter 9: 1. What is the meanin
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Please answer to the following questions, about chapter 9: 1. What is the meaning of the term automaticity as it relates to attention and the performance of motor skills? Give an example. 2. (a) What is the meaning of the term visual selective attention, and how does it relate to the study of attention? (b) Describe hovw researchers study visual selective attention as it relates to the performance of motor skills. Give an example. 3. Discuss how skilled performers engage in visual search in the performance of four different types of motor skills. 4. After reading the article by Beilock et al. (2002), only Experiment 1, integrate with textbook, chapter 9 information, and provide your comments. MINIMUM 100 words per answer.Explanation / Answer
Acquisition of a new skill is generally associated with a decrease in the need for effortful control over performance, leading to the development of automaticity. Automaticity by definition has been achieved when performance of a primary task is minimally affected by other ongoing tasks.
Often, the difference between the struggling learner and the independent learner isn’t just the skill, it’s also the speed or fluency with which the skill can be performed. Research tells us that automaticity is the ability to perform skilled tasks without specific cognitive attention to these tasks. An example of automaticity is driving. As we learn to drive, we struggle to stay in the center of the road and be aware of the other cars, traffic signs, people, and bicycles. We struggle with just how far to turn the steering wheel, and with how hard to step on the gas and the brake.
Academic skills that can be automated include reading decoding, handwriting, and math-fact retrieval. Once these skills become automated, they no longer require a lot of mental energy to be performed. In other words, automaticity is a process of brain development which enables people to quickly and accurately use already learned skills.