Question Two: How Do We Acquire Skills?

There’s also the issue of how we acquire these representations.

• Expert-novice differences. Experts appear to represent ideas at a deeper level than novices .
• Automaticity effects . Skills tend to recede from conscious awareness with experience.
• Declarative-to-procedural transitions. . This transformation implies that skills may have different patterns of transfer at different levels of mastery as their dominant mental representation changes.
• Cognitive load. Studying an example, for instance, is better than solving a problem when cognitive load is high, but the opposite is true when itis low.