I dunno I posting in the correct section or not . But i very curious about this .
About learning , I very confuse . Does human need to go through repetition to learn something?
Let take this for example , I learn how to cook chicken rice today (oh ya i know how to cook chicken rice le) . After 5 year , you ask me can i cook chicken rice i will say i dunno or forget how to cook . Why? This is because i only learn once . I did not practice/repetition. So , in order to learn something , we must practice? Is this the only way human learn thing? How intelligent link to learning field? Higher intelligent = we no need practice?




(Sorry for my bad grammer mistake as i still learning grammer rule )

This post has been edited by genuinehuman: Dec 7 2009, 03:08 PM

It depends on whether the particular subject is of your interest or not. Some things require constant memorization for them to be ingrained into one's head, whilst others clearly remain in the memories even after just one occurence.

No, even the smartest of people will need to practice somehow or another.

there's such a thingie as memory... eg, when people says practice makes perfect... it means something

eg.. look at boxers, a lot of ppl think to punch is easy but to punch a certain way in d certain speed take muscle memory and u do this by punching over n over at that style u want...

brain memory... by using memory maps and repeating stuff.. it gets burn in ur brain.. eg like swimming styles, knowledge, spelling...

genetic memory... thats how we evolve, eg better looks, better body, better brains, immunity to certain diseases

Well, in my personal opinion, there are 2 type of ability which you speak off: mental and physical ability.

Mental learning ability depends on brain power, and varies from person to person. We can generally breakdown mental ability into 2 parts, analytical and memory. Analytical require understanding of relation, reasoning, while memory is the ability to recall things.

About mental learning ability, some people just have the extraordinary brain power to learn faster and remember longer than any of us. To maintain that knowledge, we need to practice. The frequency and duration of practice varies from person to person. Obviously people who can learn faster and remember longer need less time and less learning frequency.

Some part of life, we will meet scenario which we never encounter before. That's when we begin to relate with past experience (which related to our ability to breakdown the scenario into smaller piece; ability to recall memory, reconstruct the scenario using past experience in logical manner). For example, chess game. The more experience we have, the better we are. As simple as it sound, it is a taunting task to create such AI, and our AI development are still at infancy level.

For physical learning ability, it's all about muscle (coordination) memory. Like how we always able to put a spoon in our mouth, touch our nose and ears without looking, etc. But for more intensive physical movement, we require training, basically to tone up our muscle. This usually refer to sports, i.e. swimming, throwing and receiving a ball, dancing, playing musical instrument, etc. Lack of practice will make us slow, unable to perform that series of muscle coordination (mostly due to weak and less responsive muscle).

Very often, the most difficult part is to relearn this ability after an accident/coma when our muscle is too weak. It may not amaze you, but learning to walk can be an impossible task. If you observe baby walk (especially babies that just learnt to walk), they pause, use fast stroke, and unable to execute a fluid movement. As we grow up, we become better, but not many appreciate this ability.

In fact, we are still unable to recreate the AI to replicate human coordination, i.e. walking.

This post has been edited by Aurora: Dec 7 2009, 10:30 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_sciences

Hi,

If you are REALLY interested, the above URL is a place to start.

There are at least 5 different methods of learning.

Dreamer

I think, the root cause is that we human beings forget easily, and do not absorb info fast enough. It's not that we are not learning the first time.

The benefits of repetition, is to make that memory stronger, and the extra time spent, will also enable you to learn other aspects which you didn't notice the first time you learn it (effected by processing speed). For example, you didn't realise your master flatten the chicken first instead of chopping it immediately.

Sometimes it is a matter of preferences, if you prefer something, you tend to think and delve on it longer. This makes stronger memory bonds. Also perchance, when we sleep, our brains will reprocess some info we see in the day, if the brain determines the lesson as important, it might reinforce it into memory.