Abstract
Most tasks get faster with practice. This holds across task size and task type. Learning curves plot time to complete a task as a function of practice. Such curves generally follow what is called a power law, thus, they are often said to conform to ‘the power law of practice.’ Cognitive psychology has shown that the power law of practice is ubiquitous, and cognitive modeling has explained both the general speedup and some of the variability in performance, which previously was taken to be completely noise. Research is ongoing to find out why it is ubiquitous and where it does not apply.
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