"Single-trial-per-task" versus "Multiple-trials-per-task" in the Acquisition of Skill in Performing Several Similar Tasks

Authors

Dorothy E. McAllister, State University of Iowa

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The present experiment was an attempt to discover the relative merits of two different practice procedures in developing skill in the performance of psychomotor tasks. Specifically, the aim was to determine whether one trial per day on each of eight different but similar tasks for eight consecutive days would result in better performance on a. test task than would eight trials per day for eight consecutive days each involving a different but similar task.

Publication Date

1950

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

57

Issue

1

First Page

407

Last Page

416

Copyright

©1950 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

McAllister, Dorothy E. (1950) ""Single-trial-per-task" versus "Multiple-trials-per-task" in the Acquisition of Skill in Performing Several Similar Tasks," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 57(1), 407-416.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol57/iss1/56