Speed or Accuracy Instructions During Skill Learning do not Affect the Acquired Knowledge.

ABSTRACT: A crucial question in skill learning research is how instruction affects the performance or the underlying representations. Little is known about the effects of instructions on one critical aspect of skill learning, namely, picking-up statistical regularities. More specifically, the present study tests how prelearning speed or accuracy instructions affect the acquisition of non-adjacent second-order dependencies. We trained 2 groups of participants on an implicit probabilistic sequence learning task: one group focused on being fast and the other on being accurate. As expected, we detected a strong instruction effect: accuracy instruction resulted in a nearly errorless performance, and speed instruction caused short reaction times (RTs). Despite the differences in the average RTs and accura

SUBMITTER: Vekony T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8152873 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature