Yup
It goes in this order :-
- Cognititive
Cognitive stage is all about trying to understand how do do the skill. It involves lots of video's, instruction times and etc. Its all about conceptialisation of the skill. Lots of errors occur in this stage.
- Associative
Associative is concerned with learning the skill and reducing errors. Involves lots of practice. Errors start to be minimised during this stage, but they still occur. Kinestic sense is developed during this time. Some people never get past this stage
- Autonomous
This is concerned with the ability to do it automatically, i.e. don't really have to think about the skill, it just happens, like you write, you don't know how you do it, it just happens. It's when a person's kinasetic sense is highly developed, and they are a top athlete such as those from the olympics. Characteristics of highly skilled performarers are that they do it with style, elegance, 'have all the time in the wolrd', have good mental preperation.