Questions for Skill Acquisition by Anderson:
What are the stages of skill acquisition? Using your favorite sport, illustrate each stage. What kind of knowledge is used at each stage?
What are the key experimental results that lead us to infer the existence of motor programs?
Not all motor controls involve cognitive control. For example imagine that while cooking, your hand touch a very hot plate. What will happen next? At which stage do you think your higher cognitive functions got involved?
What are production rules? Provide two examples drawing from your personal experience.
In figure 9.6 subjects often have difficulty moving from state 6 to 7. How does the reading explain this fact? Can you think of a similar personal experience?
What are the key concepts used to describe human problem solving? As an example, contrast the problem solving description page 330 and page 331.
How flexible are motor programs? Provide example(s) of how they can or cannot be re-targeted.
What is the role of feedback in skill acquisition? Which experiment seems to validate Schmidt schema theory? Why?
Provide two examples in which the theory of skill acquisition could help interaction designers (one for which it will predict how a feature will improve performance or comfort, and one for which it will predict a possible problem).
Compare recall memory and recognition memory and explain how they interact.