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The beginning of motor learning as a specialized field of academic study can arguably be dated from the time that the first college-level course was developed and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, in the year

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An American psychologist whose development of the Law of Effect played a significant role in early studies of motor learning, and which today continues to influence the study of how people learn motor skills, was



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Answer to Question 1

1939.

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Edward Thorndike.



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