The task assigned to me was to bounce a ping-pong ball 20 times in my non-dominant hand while continually swapping the face of the ping-pong paddle. pong. For me to acquire the skill and have fine control of it, I need to be able to swap the face of the paddle quickly, precisely without moving my hand away and finely judging the power needed to give me enough height and it's time to change and prepare for the incoming ball. This kind of judgment comes naturally to me, even though I'm left-handed and play field hockey where all the sticks are for right-handers, which means I've had to develop fine control of my right near the level of my LEFT. The skill assigned to me is a fairly basic skill that almost all ping pong players can master, although this is usually not the case with non-dominant players. The skill itself is fairly easy to learn and refine with enough time and attention devoted to repetition. The Four-Dimensional Continuum Cognitive and Motor Skills - The task given to me falls within the four-dimensional continuum, the first thing to do is to classify whether it is a cognitive skill or a motor skill. A cognitive skill concerns decision making and the strategies that dictate movement (Schmidt and Wrisberg, 2004). Then there are motor skills which focus more on muscular activity than cognitive decision-making skills. Take weightlifting for example, it is a motor skill because it is more about movement and activating certain muscles, without needing to think much, let alone strategies. Then there is chess which is a very cognitive skill based game, mainly because when you play chess your brain activity is maximized and you don't really need motor control to do anything. I believe that of the two, my task is a motor skill for the simple fac...... middle of paper ...... Motor ability is specifically related to the performance of a motor skill, each person has a variety of motor skills abilities (Schmidt and Wrisberg, 2004). The 3 Stages of Learning Verbal Cognitive Stage - When I was trying to learn this skill, it was actually quite easy given that I had already done training on my non-dominant hand, so I had a level higher base. then control someone who doesn't often use their non-dominant hand. When learning a skill, there are three stages of learning: the verbal cognitive stage, the motor stage and the autonomous stage (Schmidt and Wrisberg, 2004). The verbal cognitive stage has two parts: the verbal (speaking) phase and the cognitive (thoughts) phase, both of which are used to help find goals, judgment, and timing. Basically, the verbal cognitive stage boils down to starting to familiarize yourself with a certain unknown skill through a process of trial and error..