teen’s teaching of driving

The Role of Procedural Memory in Motor Skills

The long-term memory in the brain called procedural memory is in charge of helping us understand how to carry out tasks. The motor skills include activities like driving and bicycling. The procedural memory stores the steps for performing motor activities, such as driving a car. Without needing to recall the steps, the learners can remember all the abilities and instructions they acquired during practice thanks to implicit memory.

The Automation of Driving

Because it is stored in the motor strip and is made possible by the brain’s procedural memory, driving a car is an automated procedure. Driving is a motor ability that is accessed automatically and without the driver’s permission. All that a good driver has to do is pay attention to the act of driving and ignore everything else around him; phone calls or music from the radio (Smarter Every Day, 2015). However, any slight distraction from the surrounding will affect the driving of the driver because his procedural memory will be interrupted and that can lead to accidents.

The Importance of Parental Responsibility in Driving Education

Learning to drive is a parental responsibility because it is a complicated process that cannot be learned within a short period. The process of being a good driver requires enough experience until the act of driving is automated in the brain. Therefore, parents should consistently give their children a lot of driving lessons and teach them how to ignore distractions when driving, until they become better drivers (Smarter Every Day, 2015). Grounding and taking away children’s phones will not help them become good drivers. The plan is to give them several driving lessons while teaching them how to concentrate on the act.

Reference

[Smarter Every Day]. (2015, April 24). The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133.

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