Physical Education A-Level
The learning plateau and its causes
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A period when improvement stalls after initial progress, caused by loss of motivation, fatigue or boredom, poor coaching or feedback, overlearning, incorrect technique becoming habitual, or anxiety or loss of confidence.
Topics that use The learning plateau and its causes
- Principles and theories of learning and performance (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Associative stage
- Attention, retention, reproduction and motivation
- Causes of plateau
- Cognitive stage
- Cognitive, associative and autonomous stages of learning
- Feedback types: positive, negative, extrinsic and intrinsic
- Gestalt psychology and whole-pattern perception
- Insight learning and Gestalt theory
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