skill acquisition
Mastering new abilities
Skill acquisition is the process of learning and developing a new ability through practice and experience.
The term appears in psychology, sports science, and education, where researchers study how people move from novice to expert.
Skill acquisition in surgery requires thousands of hours of supervised practice.
The phrase emphasizes that skills are gained gradually rather than possessed innately.
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- repetitionAct of redoing
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
- motor skillsCoordinated bodily movement ability
cognitive skills · feedback · mentorship · hands-on experience · prior knowledge · motivation · learning · automaticity · second nature · deliberate · steep climb · mastery · chunking · transfer · goal setting · self-regulation · scaffolding · building blocks
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- self-educationautodidacticism, autodidact, self-study, self-directed learning, self-instruction
- competenciescompetency, proficiency, mastery, expertise, skills
- special educationspecial education, special ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs
- sports sciencesports science, exercise science, kinesiology, biomechanics, sports medicine
- vocational trainingapprenticeship, apprenticeships, trade school, trade schools, vocational school
skill acquisitiondeskilling
Reducing job complexity
forgetting · unlearning · deterioration · rustiness · cognitive decline
skill acquisitionnatural ability
Innate capacity for something
natural gift · raw talent · giftedness · instinct · intuition
skill acquisitionstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
complacency · arrested development · disengagement · dormancy · inertia