The Effect of self-controlled practice on forearm passing, motivation, and affect in womenâ•Žs volleyball players

Repository Citation Rydberg, Nels, "The Effect of self-controlled practice on forearm passing, motivation, and affect in women's volleyball players" (2011). Motor learning research has suggested that self-controlled practice (or " autonomy ") leads to more effective learning of motor tasks. Debate continues, however, as to why. Most motor behaviorists maintain the better learning is due to cognitive and information-processing factors. Recently, others have proposed the learning enhancement is due to such psychological factors as motivation and affect. The present study sought to measure motor skill learning, intrinsic motivation, and affect in self-controlled versus externally-controlled (yoked)