The role of awareness of repetition during the development of automaticity in a dot-counting task

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Craig P. Speelman¹  Emma Shadbolt¹ 

[1] School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University

关键词: Skill acquisition;    Automaticity;    Automatic processing;    Learning;    Practice;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.4329

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

This study examined whether being aware of the repetition of stimuli in a simple numerosity task could aid the development of automaticity. The numerosity task used in this study was a simple counting task. Thirty-four participants were divided into two groups. One group was instructed that the stimuli would repeat many times throughout the experiment. The results showed no significant differences in the way automatic processing developed between the groups. Similarly, there was no correlation between the point at which automatic processing developed and the point at which participants felt they benefitted from the repetition of stimuli. These results suggest that extra-trial features of a task may have no effect on the development of automaticity, a finding consistent with the instance theory of automatisation.

【 授权许可】

CC BY