Effects of age on learning a spatial motor task in younger and older adults individualizing their knowledge of results schedule
dc.contributor.author | Carter, Michael J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-25T20:17:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-25T20:17:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-01-25 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10464/3133 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brock University | en_US |
dc.subject | self-control | en_US |
dc.subject | knowledge of results (KR) | en_US |
dc.subject | younger adults | en_US |
dc.subject | older adults | en_US |
dc.subject | motor learning | en_US |
dc.title | Effects of age on learning a spatial motor task in younger and older adults individualizing their knowledge of results schedule | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.degree.name | M.Sc. Applied Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Applied Health Sciences Program | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Faculty of Applied Health Sciences | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-08-07T02:46:22Z |