My IAM buttessment 5457Silk brought next idea : No, I well remember learning to drive by innocently watching the actions of others. I then went on to teach myself. Bicycle, motorbike...
On Mon, 02 May 2005 00:45:37 +0100, Harry Bloomfield
The answer is: how did you learn the skill in the first place? You probably don't remember your parents guiding your first faltering steps.
What I can say with certainty is you remember learning how to drive and, as with all skills, a certain amount of it is filed away in the subconcious once the concious mind has understood the process - this is true of all learning. The problem is: get the training wrong in the first place and the subconcious will be getting it wrong constantly, without you being aware of it.
When someone goes in for Advanced Driver Training, we need to bring all these unconscious "bad habits" to the suface and work on them before they can become part of the unconcious thought process after practice. This usually creates a perceived effect of the driving actually gettying worse initially as the driver now has to think about every action. After time, when the new skills become "good habits", things settle down.
Anyone who have been taught how to train, as we are in the IAM, will probably be familiar with the 4 stages of learning: Unconcious incompetence; concious incompetence; concious competence; unconcious competence.
