Part practice can beneficial for cognitive learners, the skill can be broken down into sub-routines
Part practice can beneficial for cognitive learners, the skill can be broken down into sub-routines, which means there is a reduced chance of information overload. An example of part practice is in swimming, the swimmer can hold a float to neutralise the arms and focus on perfecting the leg stroke. It allows the performer to focus on a part of a skill they may be struggling with, so it is most useful for low-organisational skills. However, part practice doesn't develop a kinaesthesis for the movement and doesn't work on the skill as a whole. Therefore progressive part practice might be more useful to performers. Progressive part practice still breaks the skill down into sub-routines, but the sub-routines are brought together. This makes progressive part practice more useful for complex and serial skills. This kind of practice can be useful for younger learners, who will have shorter attention spans and also benefits associative performers, as it helps with the transfer of sub-routines into the full skills and develops a kinaesthesis at the end of the progressive part practice which finished practising the whole skill.