8- How Do We Become an Expert? Intro to Skill Acquisition

Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden once said: “The
importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be
overstated”. Reaching a stage where some skills can be performed
“automatically” is thought to be one of the main goals of sports
training and one of the defining characteristics of being an
expert.  But what exactly does it mean for a sports skill to
be “automatic” and how exactly is this desired state achieved
through training? In this episode, I introduce the topic of skill
acquisition be exploring traditional theories of how an athlete
progresses from a novice to an expert.


Research confessions: Does research always happen like we
say it does in journal articles?


 


Links to articles discussed:


Movement automaticity in sport


From attentional control to attentional spillover: a skill-level
investigation of attention, movement, and performance outcomes


Expertise, attention, and memory in sensorimotor skill execution:
impact of novel task constraints on dual-task performance and
episodic memory


Fitts & Posner


 


More information


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Twitter: @Shakeywaits


Email: robgray@asu.edu


 


Credits: 


The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action


Matt Augustine - Learn How to Swim


Jonathan DImmel – Learn From Me


Sonic Avenues – Automatic


Arsonist – Hot Salsa Trip


Room One Eleven – Automatic


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