Effects of age on learning a spatial motor task in younger and older adults individualizing their knowledge of results schedule


Autoria(s): Carter, Michael J.
Contribuinte(s)

Applied Health Sciences Program

Data(s)

25/01/2011

25/01/2011

25/01/2011

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.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10464/3133

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