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Answer: B - The Fitts and Posner model is often used to describe the three phases of learning for motor skills: cognitive, associative and autonomous. During the cognitive phase, the participant is learning movements, often making errors and actively involved in higher cortical processing to mimic exercises as demonstrated by the instructor. As the participant becomes familiar with movements, he or she moves into the associative phase. During this phase, participants are actively performing the movements and able to occasionally follow instructions to improve their execution. In the autonomous phase, the skill becomes second nature or “automatic”.