Effects of age on learning a spatial motor task in younger and older adults individualizing their knowledge of results schedule
Contribuinte(s) |
Applied Health Sciences Program |
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Data(s) |
25/01/2011
25/01/2011
25/01/2011
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Resumo |
Self-controlled KR practice has revealed that providing participants the opportunity to control their KR is superior for motor learning compared to participants replicating the KR schedule of a self-control participant, without the choice (e.g., yoked). The purpose of the present experiment was two-fold. First, to examine the utility of a self-controlled KR schedule for learning a spatial motor task in younger and older adults and second, to determine whether a self-controlled KR schedule facilitates an increased ability to estimate one’s performance in retention and transfer. Twenty younger adults and 20 older adults practiced in either the self-control or yoked condition and were required to push and release a slide along a confined pathway using their non-dominant hand to a target distance. The retention data revealed that as a function of age, a self-controlled KR schedule facilitated superior retention performance and performance estimations in younger adults compared to their yoked counterparts. |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Brock University |
Palavras-Chave | #self-control #knowledge of results (KR) #younger adults #older adults #motor learning |
Tipo |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |