Which of the following is not classified as a

27. Which of the following is not classified as a performance variable?
28. Which of the following is generally not considered a characteristic of learning?
29. Which of the following is the best definition of a performance plateau during a practice session?
31. To graphically represent a performance curve for a performance outcome measure for a series of
practice trials, the trials should be displayed on the y-axis (vertical axis).
30. The primary reason to use a transfer test to assess learning is to evaluate which of the following
performance characteristics associated with the learning of a motor skill?
32. According to Fitts and Posner, the learner moves through three stages when learning a motor skill.
These are the cognitive, the associative, and the
33. Gentile’s learning stages model indicates that in the first stage of learning, the learner must learn to
discriminate between which two types of environmental context conditions ?
34. Gentile’s learning stages model indicates that in the second stage of learning, one goal of the
learner is related specifically to closed skills. This goal is called
35. When a person who is learning handwriting moves the three arm segments as if two of the
segments were one, this person demonstrates an early learning characteristic known as
freezing degrees of freedom.
36. Performing a skill with a minimum expenditure of energy is usually associated with which stage of
learning?
37. The brain areas that are active during the early stage of learning are typically
not the same as the areas active in the later stages of learning.

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38. Which of the following is the best definition of the “power law of practice”?
39. Which of the following is most characteristic of expert motor skill performers?
40. The general rule of thumb for predicting positive transfer between two motor skills is that the
41. The transfer-appropriate-processing theory accounts for why positive transfer occurs by stating that
positive transfer is due to the similarity of the
cognitive processes required by two motor skills.