MANIPULATING TARGET SIZE INFLUENCES PERCEPTIONS OF SUCCESS WHEN LEARNING A DART-THROWING SKILL BUT DOES NOT IMPACT RETENTION
Positive feedback or experiences of success during skill acquisition have been shown to benefit motor skill learning. In this study, our aim was to manipulate learners’ success perceptions through a minor adjustment to goal criterion (target size) in a dart-throwing task. Two groups of novice partic...
Main Authors: | Nicole T Ong, Keith R Lohse, Nicola Jane Hodges |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01378/full |
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