Part-Whole training

Reference - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0001691889900073?via%3Dihub

This is a common approach to the training of a task that is difficult and demanding and cannot be initially coped with.

Under this approach, the whole task is decomposed into segments.

There are several strategies to decompose tasks -

• segmentation - divide a task meaningfully across time.
• fractionation - breaking down task into elements
• simplification - reduction in difficulty

Pitfalls

Training individual schemas has a negative transfer to performance on the whole task, as it is theorized that the main properties of schemas lie in the connections between them (which are not developed subsequently).