Week 8: Schema Theory

Schema

learners develop these rules (Schemas) for how to perform a task or behavior

def 1 of schema

abstract representation stored in memory following multiple presentations of a class or object of experiences

Schema def 2

relationship between all past environmental outcomes and values of parameters that were used to produce those outcomes

if you construct interventions with limited experiences, expect...

limited schema

when planning to produce a movement never before performed by the learner, what does the learner do

makes an educated guess

Schmidt states that performance of a novel task is either

inside or outside of the range of variation experienced following development of a schema

interpolation (Inside)

relatively safe guess since within the built schema

extrapolation (outside)

more prone to error since guess is outside the built schema