What is a skill? What are the stages through which skill learning develops?
Answers
Skill is something we can learn or something we can do well. A Skill is a series of linked movements performed for a reason.
Skill learning develops through three different stages those are
• Cognitive Phase
• Associative Phase
• Autonomous Phase
• In the Cognitive phase, the person has to understand and recollects the instructions.
• In the Associative phase, the person has different sensitive inputs linked with particular responses so the person should have to practice continuously then he/ she improved her/his skills.
• In the Autonomous phase, the person skills attain automatically with minimal needs of knowledgeable efforts.
The ability to complete a task in a competent manner is referred as a skill.
Explanation:
This ability is gained by deliberate, repeated, systemic, sustained efforts in a smooth and effective manner in order to achieve determined results in a task.
Fitts and Postner classified skill into cognitive, associative, and autonomous stage.
The cognitive stage refers to the mental representation; associative stage links ideas and thoughts; and skill automatism occurs in autonomous stage.
Erickson, a psychiatrist, classified the stages of skill as unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence .