Some useful descriptions of the learning process:
[Fitts & Posner 1967]
| Awareness (Cognitive) | 1 | Early | I think I understand, but … |
| 2 | Late | Aha! I get it | |
| Practice (Associative) | 3 | Early | I can’t feel it – is this OK? |
| 4 | Late | It works if I think about it | |
| Acquired (Autonomous) | 5 | Early | I don’t have to think about it |
| 6 | Late | I can trust it when the going gets tough |
[Whitmore 1984]
| 1 | Unconscious incompetence |
| 2 | Conscious incompetence |
| 3 | Conscious competence |
| 4 | Unconscious competence |