COGNITIVE SKILL ACQUISITION
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Psychology
- Vol. 47 (1) , 513-539
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.47.1.513
Abstract
Cognitive skill acquisition is acquiring the ability to solve problems in intellectual tasks, where success is determined more by subjects' knowledge than by their physical prowess. This review considers research conducted in the past ten years on cognitive skill acquisition. It covers the initial stages of acquiring a single principle or rule, the initial stages of acquiring a collection of interacting pieces of knowledge, and the final stages of acquiring a skill, wherein practice causes increases in speed and accuracy.Keywords
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