Which example best illustrates practice?

• A. Tying your shoes becomes easier and automatic with repetition.
• B. Copying a dance move after watching a video.
• C. Reading a book for information.
• D. Observing a friend.

Answer: (A)

Practice solidifies a skill through repeated performance, moving actions from deliberate effort to automatic execution. The example of tying your shoes becoming easier and automatic with repetition shows this automaticity in action—the more you repeat the sequence, the smoother and faster it becomes, until it can be done with little conscious thought. This illustrates how practice engrains motor patterns and frees cognitive resources for other tasks. Copying a dance move after watching a video is learning through imitation rather than sustained practice to the point of automaticity; reading a book for information involves acquiring knowledge, not refining a sensorimotor skill; and observing a friend is passive observation without the repeated execution that leads to automatic performance.