Talk:Procedural memory

message: So if I was learning a 2nd language and wanted to recall what I learned, I would need a strong Procedural memory correct?  How would one improve his procedural memory?
:(I added a title to this question). It would be semantic memory that you're asking about, not procedural memory, I believe. As for improving, hard to say. My guess: learn. The more you learn, the easier it is to learn more, I think it's fair to say. There are also memory strategies one can learn, mnemonic devices like the method of loci that can help you improve recall by taking advantage of the way the brain works (i.e. associatively). digfarenough (talk) 22:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Language recall

message: This should go to an entirely different subject. It has little to do with procedural memory. Otherwise we would need to bring Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Venus Williams, and many more. Procedular memory is a physiology subject. The section I remove might go to Tiger Woods, to Golf, to Learning Golf, or even "procedural memory in Golf".
Here it goes ...
To acquire an appreciation for the application of procedural memory with regard to athletic performance, Yogi Berra had once posed the rhetorical question:
*   "How can you think and hit at the same time?" Yogi Berra
# Judge the line of the ball
# Judge the grain of the turf
# Judge the distance and angle to the hole
# Image the ball going into the hole
# Position the ball somewhere between the center of your feet. You should be able to look straight down on top of the ball
# Align shoulders, hips, knees, and feet parallel and to the left of the target (e.g., image railroad tracks from the ball to the cup—feet outside the tracks, the ball in the middle)
# Grip—thumbs should be pointed straight down, palms facing each other, a light grip
# Posture—stand tall enough so that if you were to practice putting for 30 minutes you would not experience a stiff or sore back
# Arms—should hang naturally and be relaxed
# Hands—should be relative to ball position. Hands should be slightly in front of the ball
# Head position—eyes should be positioned directly over the ball
# Weight—distribute weight evenly, about 50-50, or with a little more weight on the left foot
# Backswing—swing the club straight back. The distance back that the club goes must equal the through stroke distance
# Stroke—the club must accelerate through the ball. Finish with the "face" of the club head pointing directly at the target
# Length of the stroke—it is better to err to a shorter more compact stroke rather than a longer stroke
# Stroke direction—straight back and straight through
# Stroke rhythm—not too fast and not too slow
# Keep head and lower body stationary throughout stroke and swing with the arms
# Wrists—should not break during the stroke
# Arms and shoulders—should do most of the work
# Head/trunk/hips/legs—should remain still during the stroke
# Watch the ball go into the hole   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.89.200.51 (talk) 05:05, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tiger Woods material 

message: Merge Seems like a no-brainer. Sparkie82 (t•c) 16:53, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from Automaticity? 

message: I think this article might be improved by reverting it to a much older version because of insidious vandalism which occurred between circa January 2009 and March 2010. Much of the damaging content was introduces at the revision at []. The user who made that edit had several warnings on his user page around that time. His first edit to the article was to blank the page [].
An example of some of the damaging content which remains to this day:
:Skill acquisition is achieved when an observed behaviour has changed due to experience or practice. This is known as learning and is not directly observable.
Because the vandalism is so difficult to detect, I think a revert to some earlier version might significantly improve the article without having to plod through it as it is. Sparkie82 (t•c) 16:45, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Major revert needed?

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thread_title: File:Margot Fonteyn.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: As a first year psychology student, procedural memory in and of itself was a concept I needed to research due to the fallibility of my instructor. He required knowledge of procedural memory for our final, but did not cover it in class & it was not in our textbook. If the articles had been merged I would not have found what I needed. Please keep them separate for future generations to find.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.45.201 (talk) 00:11, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do not combine 

message: Automaticity should be updated, not merged with "Procedural memory", as the element of it being directly related to procedural memory is "Post-conscious automaticity", but there is another side to automaticity that has emerged in psychology, i.e. Pre-conscious automaticity, which is not preceded by conscious/intentional thought. (Bargh, Schwader, Hailey, Dyer, & Boothby, 2012). Thus, merging the two would just necessarily give birth to a second article and it would just add to the confusion, having to differentiate the two concepts of pre- and postconscious automaticity while they're defined in two different articles. 
Bargh, J. A., Schwader, K. L., Hailey, S. E., Dyer, R. L., & Boothby, E. J. (2012). Automaticity in social-cognitive processes. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(12), 593-605.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.203.30.24 (talk) 11:28, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not merge the two! 

message: Some ridiculous comments about how "we have all seen" professional athletes "perform like beginners" or similar nonsense that looks like it was lifted from a magazine article, I flagged it. Anonywiki (talk) 21:37, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: "McDougall" is referenced but not cited. Presumably it is William McDougall (psychologist), but this is not linked. 2606:A000:1126:28D:49B1:F7CF:DED4:6F11 (talk) 16:55, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "McDougall" 

message: Not an important topic? FangoFuficius (talk) 06:55, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Learning Musical Instruments