MASSED PRACTICE AND DICTRIBUTIVE PRACTICE
Running head: MASSED PRACTICE AND DICTRIBUTIVE PRACTICEThe Effects of Massed Practice and Distributive Practice on Motor Skill Task.Queens College/ City University of New York Over a century scientist have wonder if massed practice conditions are superior to distributive practice conditions or visa versa. According to a mete-analytic review scientists have researched this very phenomenon and have concluded that distributive practices conditions are superior to those of massed practice conditions in a variety of situations. These results are supported by Maureen Bergondy's experiment on team practice schedules as well as William C. Chasey's experiment on distribution of practice on learning retention and relearning. This experiment deals with the relationship between conditions of massed practice and distributive practice with respect to task performance. The motor skill task performed by subjects in this study wrote the English alphabet upside down fifty times. One group was given the massed practice motor task; while subjects from the five other groups practiced the motor task under five different distributions of time. However, our findings do not support those of previous finding
The age of the sample varied from seventeen years of age to fifty years of age. ReferencesBergondy Maureen, (1998). Discussion There was no difference between the massed practice and distributive practice condition. The only thing found was that there were practice effect involved in the experiment. This also allowed the subjects to get use to the format of the experiment and familiarize themselves with the letters they had to write. Material & Apparatus The time was recorded in seconds therefore the instrument need to record the duration of the performed task as well as the rest period if there were one required a second indicator. No one had any gross motor-impairments and were fluent in the English language.
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