Cognitive stage
What Cognitive stage means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Cognitive stage
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Reference: AQA
The beginner thinks hard about what to do, makes many errors and needs demonstrations and feedback.
The early stage of learning when the learner cannot yet self-correct.
Topics that use Cognitive stage
- Principles and theories of learning and performance (AQA A-Level)
- Use of guidance and feedback (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Associative stage
- Attention, retention, reproduction and motivation
- Causes of plateau
- Classification of feedback by effect on the learner
- Cognitive, associative and autonomous stages of learning
- Concurrent and terminal feedback
- Detection and correction of error
- Extrinsic feedback
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