Psychology Mirror tracing Lab report

Introduction

The purpose of this laboratory experiment was to determine how the learning of new hand-eye coordination took place when a pattern of a star was traced by looking at its mirror image. It was first hypothesized that trial and error learning would occur, in which, one learns by repeating the procedure numerous times. It was also predicted that negative transfer would occur, where a long-standing habit in either hand would interfere with new motor skill learning. In addition, it was also hypothesized that learning in one hand would facilitate learning in the other hand as a positive transfer.
Method
Subject. The subject was a right-handed, approximately twenty-two year old male. The subject did not receive any monetary compensation for his participation, however, served as a subject for partial fulfillment of a course requirement.
Apparatus. One apparatus used in this experiment was a mirror tracing apparatus, which consisted of a mirror placed ...