Manufacturing Exceptional Performance: A Review of Skilled Memory Theory

Authors: Nikhat Parveen

Pages: 58-61

Abstract:

Skilled memory theory explains how exceptional performance can be developed in any area of academic study, profession,vocational skill, and sports; long-term working memory explains about the cognitive structures and their attendant processesthat form the underlying basis for the development of exceptional performance; and the framework of deliberate practicedescribes the systematic methods for development of skilled memory and long-term working memory in any domain.Ericsson and his colleagues show that normal adults, with consistent practice over the duration of some years, can achieveexceptional performance in a particular domain, and that they are not endowed with some extraordinary cognitive structuresand processes, but share the same that are common to all the populace. Expert memory is demonstrated as an outcome of expertperformance in a domain of expertise which is called the skilled memory.These three interrelated theoretical constructs have inspired and guided a number of researchers and practitioners in manyareas to investigate their respective domains in a systematic and empirical manner and design and implement interventions toimprove the students and participants performances.