The impact of context manipulation on knowledge development in a balancing task

摘要: Knowledge acquisition and change has long been argued to progress through sequential, qualitatively different developmental stages. Mounting evidence, in the form of performance variability on tasks balancing micro-domain, suggests that this explanation is not sufficient. This study employed two experiments using a balance beam task examined three disparate manipulations: feedback, symmetry, frequency variety beams. Experiment I looked specifically at how varies as function whether feedback was allowed or visual symmetry cues were present. Findings experiment indicate access plays role performance. II considered impact distribution beam-variety. The findings inconclusive, both range types beams used varied between groups. Nevertheless, results showed specific experience during training sessions resulted better with same type subsequent test session. Acknowledgments would like thank my committee: Heidi Kloos, Peter Chiu, Rhonda Brown, for all time invested effort expended bringing document completion. line data required considerable exploration. Heidi’s patience exploratory process proved invaluable. also Adrienne Frazier her extensive efforts collection manipulation presented herein.