Abstract
The theoretical framework presented in this article explains expert performance as the end result of individuals' prolonged efforts to improve performance while negotiating motivational and external constraints. In most domains of expertise, individuals begin in their childhood a regimen of effortful activities (deliberate practice) designed to optimize improvement. Individual differences, even among elite performers, are closely related to assessed amounts of deliberate practice. Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 years. Analysis of expert performance provides unique evidence on the potential and limits of extreme environmental adaptation and learning.
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- 100
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- 3
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- 363-406
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K. Anders Ericsson,
Ralf Krampe,
Clemens Tesch‐Römer
(1993).
The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance..
Psychological Review
, 100
(3)
, 363-406.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.100.3.363
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- 10.1037/0033-295x.100.3.363