Practice

In order to lock new information into long-term memory, trainers need to build into the training program opportunities to perform the skills and apply the ideas being taught.

Performance

Practice sessions should allow the learner to make choices about and control the teaching methodology. Learners should also have a chance to articulate the knowledge they have learned.

Visualization

Visualization uses the imagination to create experience in one or more sensory modes. Using the nonconscious part of the mind, we can simulate experiences and practice skills as if they occurred in actuality. Visualization can also help people prepare for performance. Visualization methods are different: They can be receptive—having the learner relax to ...

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