Divided into cognitive, associative, and autonomous stages
Cognitive stage: The beginner focuses on cognitively orient the problems
During this stage, certain amount of time is required by learner to cognitively processing the instruction, movement planning, and feedback
Therefore, performance in this stage contains a lot of error, be highly variable, and lack of consistency
Even though learners know that they do something wrong, in this stage, they mostly would not know what to make it right