Beginners control their motor skills in a step-by-step manner. This requires a lot of attention. Beginners have not fully developed their working memory yet. As a result, they can only attend to one thing at a time. In controlling their motor skills beginners use more degrees of freedom. This requires a lot of attention.

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Based on Fitts and Posner's (1967) stage model of motor learning, beginners usually find it difficult to multi-task
(e.g., drive a car and maintain conversation with a passenger). Which statement provides the best reasoning for
this?
Select one alternative:
O Beginners control their motor skills in a step-by-step manner. This requires a lot of attention.
Beginners have not fully developed their working memory yet. As a result, they can only attend to one thing
at a time.
O In controlling their motor skills beginners use more degrees of freedom. This requires a lot of attention.
O Beginners usually practice in blocked fashion. As a result, they can only attend to one thing at a time.
O Beginners have poorer concentration skills. As a result, they can only attend to one thing at a time.
Transcribed Image Text:Based on Fitts and Posner's (1967) stage model of motor learning, beginners usually find it difficult to multi-task (e.g., drive a car and maintain conversation with a passenger). Which statement provides the best reasoning for this? Select one alternative: O Beginners control their motor skills in a step-by-step manner. This requires a lot of attention. Beginners have not fully developed their working memory yet. As a result, they can only attend to one thing at a time. O In controlling their motor skills beginners use more degrees of freedom. This requires a lot of attention. O Beginners usually practice in blocked fashion. As a result, they can only attend to one thing at a time. O Beginners have poorer concentration skills. As a result, they can only attend to one thing at a time.
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