Practice to an asymptote?
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1a Department of Psychology , New Mexico State University.
Abstract:
Certain experimental designs are based upon the assumption that performance level becomes stabilized after a prolonged period of practice. This assumption was tested by taking a long series of repeated measurements upon a single S for the performance of each of several constant tasks, each task being tested singly in a separate series of measurements. Results showed that after thousands of practice trials on a simple task S may still be learning or showing other sequential effects in performance. These effects may disappear on one day only to reappear on the next. Therefore it is extremely doubtful that "practice to an asymptote" should be regarded as either an efficient or an effective method of eliminating sequential effects from an experiment proper.
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