psychomotor learning: References & Edit History

A review of psychomotor skill acquisition is outlined in K. Anders Ericsson and Neil Charness, “Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition,” American Psychologist, 49(8):725–747 (August 1994). Arthur L. Irion, “A Brief History of Research on the Acquisition of Skill,” in Edward A. Bilodeau (ed.), Acquisition of Skill (1966), pp. 1–46, contains an excellent historical survey. Two influential texts on general behaviour theory from the reinforcement viewpoint are Clark L. Hull, Principles of Behavior: An Introduction to Behavior Theory (1943, reissued 1966); and Kenneth Wartenbee Spence, Behavior Theory and Conditioning (1956, reprinted 1978). Richard A. Schmidt and Timothy D. Lee, Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis, 4th ed. (2005), presents a behavioral and physiological perspective. Paul M. Fitts and Michael I. Posner, Human Performance (1967, reprinted 1979); and A.T. Welford, Fundamentals of Skill (1968), discuss information-processing analyses of skill; while K.M. Newell, “Motor Skill Acquisition,” Annual Review of Psychology, 42:213–237 (1991), discusses the acquisition of motor skills. Edward A. Bilodeau and Ina McD. Bilodeau (eds.), Principles of Skill Acquisition (1969), provides a simplified treatment of topics by several authors. Robert N. Singer, Motor Learning and Human Performance: An Application to Motor Skills and Movement Behaviors, 3rd ed. (1980), is oriented mainly toward athletic proficiency and physical education.