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Heading out onto the lake is a great way to spend time with your family whether you are going out fishing or just to enjoy the weather. In my case though I've been fishing since before I can even remember. In fact I'm pretty sure the moment I was able to stand up my dad had given me a fishing pole with a weight tied to the end to practice casting inside the house. While casting generally seems to be a seemingly simple task I'll have you know that I often found ways to make it much more complicated than need be. My uncanny ability to figure out how to do everything wrong was fortunately counteracted by my fathers extreme patience and verbal instruction which is an example of augmented feedback. In this case especially augmented feedback was being used to enhance skill acquisition. While I could've learned how to cast on my own I acquired the skill much more quickly due to prescriptive knowledge of performance along with encouragement from my father. The feedback was also never given to me concurrently so I did not experience the negative side of augmented feedback. In fact it always came after I had already completed the skill and focused on errors while casting. Then we would go and attempt to retrieve a lure from another tree for about the fifth time that day.

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While learning stick shift is a great example for augmented feedback and I could talk all day about the feedback I got the first time I tried to drive a manual, my example also lends itself well to transfer. The thing is the first time I learned how to drive a stick shift was on a Jeep from WWII that my grandpa had restored. While beyond being generally old this particular model required the driver to do something called double clutching which is unnecessary on most modern manual cars. Instead of pushing in the clutch once and shifting to another gear, the driver first shifts the transmission into neutral, and then to the next gear, pressing the clutch with each change.
Some people may decide to still drive this way however on the car I drive today it is just an extraneous task when simply pushing in the clutch once will do. When I finally learned how to drive on a modern stick shift car I saw a large amount of positive transfer from my previous experience that allowed me to pick up on the task much more simply because it was a similar task with a slightly different order of movements that simplified the entire process. Even though I was never truly proficient at driving the old WWII jeep, the skills I learned there were similar enough to see this positive transfer on a new car.

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A nickname once given to me

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Every year I would go on fishing trips usually three or four into northern Ontario. I have already been visiting the lakes in the area for twelve years now and most trips we take a very large group up with us. Being the youngest there I usually got the short end of the stick and was stuck with cleaning every single fish we caught each day. By the end of the week I would end up cleaning over four hundred fish and earned the every endearing nickname "The Fish Doctor". The thing is I only catch and release back home in the states and so the only practice I usually get with cleaning fish is when I am up in Canada. It was interesting to see that over the years my procedural knowledge of cleaning fish stayed slightly off usually for the night each new time I came up and then the next day would magically snap back into expert mode. The encoding and storage of my memories was good, but the retrieval would struggle for a bit those first few years. Now that I'm in college and a lot busier in general I only seem to make it up once a year, twice if I'm lucky, yet I no longer struggle with the retrieval of information on how to clean fish. In fact even as my practice has slowed down and is extremely spread out over time I am better than ever in my performance of the job. I now realize that I have just had so much experience over time that my declarative memory has become excellent on the subject as I always know exactly how and what to do. The memory of how to properly clean a fish has been consolidated into my long term memory very well and is something I feel I could now pick up without years of practice and just begin the task. After years of motor learning the task has become extremely simple as my capability has slowly, but surely increased.

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In the Army every person is required to prove they are capable with their rifle in what is called a rifle qualification. This test is done on a range where targets pop up and go down in random areas as close as twenty five meters to as far out as the three hundred meters. When doing the rifle qual it is just as important to be accurate as it is to have to have plan for target transition since the targets pop up and disappear shortly after. If you don't have a plan for stimulus identification then there is no way for you to even enter into the response selection stage. My personal strategy is to open both my eyes directly after my last shot. It widens my field of vision for sensory information to come in without requiring me to readjust my sight picture by taking my cheek off of the rifle. Now that I have a strategy for that I can take the appropriate action in my response selection stage. Response selection in this case is not always as simple as point and shoot, sometimes it depends on what distance your rifle is actually sighted in for. For instance if you are sighted in for the three hundred meter targets you will aim directly at them center of mass and you would do the same for the twenty five meter targets. Around the 150m area things change though due to ballistics and the way a rifle is sighted in and you actually want to aim slightly lower in order to give you the best shot possible. With this knowledge at hand you can make the appropriate response selection depending on where your target appears. This enters the Response Programming phase where you actually make the decision on where to aim and pull the trigger. Clarity, Intensity and Pattern recognition are all factors in stimulus identification, which is arguably the most important part of the qualification. While clarity and intensity are generally going to be unchanging there can be some slight pattern recognition involved. For instance about halfway through the targets start to pop up two at a time. Being able to recognize this vastly improves your ability to transition between the two targets quickly because you still only have a few seconds before they disappear. This task is all just information processing and plays a large part in training.

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Its just a jump, hop, skip, rope climb, mud pit and log roll away

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Its just a jump, hop, skip, rope climb, mud pit and log roll away

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Army has this fun thing called obstacle courses that are designed to test your physical endurance and mental toughness at the same time. Heights and building the confidence within yourself that you can make that jump or climb that high are some of the essential pieces of the model. Before you can do any of that though its important to understand HOW to do some of the obstacles at hand, because trust me, they get weird. So naturally we go through some learning stages, the only instructions afforded to you on these obstacles is what you can't do (regulatory and non-regulatory features) and anything your battle buddy can yell loud enough to get through to you. In Gentiles Two Stage Learning model the 1st stage is "Getting the idea of the movement" I like to think of this part as the "Wow, how the heck do I get from here to there on this obstacle without dying part." So while you're determining the appropriate movement patterns not to fall out of your nonexistent safety harness you go through a lot of trial and error developing the best strategies to move your way through particularly hard obstacles on the course. Eventually you either figure out a fixed strategy for each obstacle that works for you (fixation) where you actually look somewhat smooth in completing the obstacle or you fail. While some obstacles don't afford you a large amount of diversification in your skills there are always very similar obstacles along the way in which you can actually see some slight variation. This will be where you can modify your skills learned in previous obstacles to help you achieve in novel ones.