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Please help to define the term learning, specifically motor skill learning. In soccer, I need to find a learning situation; as I teach soccer, I need to describe reinforcement contingencies and how I am applying them as I shape the learning of this sport.

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Contingency reinforcement means the relationship between a behavior and the preceding and following environmental events that influence that behavior and future responses and reactions in place of that behavior. Learning is a relatively permanent change in knowledge or observable behavior that results from practice or experience.

Therefore, in the case of teaching soccer as a professional sport, positive and negative events will matter because the behavior of playing the game on the field will be based on the preceding factors of prior practice of the game and the team spirit in the team on the ...

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