Studies of self-controlled practice have shown benefits when learners controlled feedback schedule, use of assistive devices and task difficulty, with benefits attributed to information processing and motivational advantages of self-control. Although haptic assistance serves as feedback, aids task performance and modifies task difficulty, researchers have yet to explore whether self-control ove...

The self-controlled motor learning literature consists of experiments that compare a group learners who are provided with choice over an aspect their practice environment to yoked those choices. A qualitative review the suggests unambiguous benefit from practice. meta-analysis was conducted on effects retention test performance measures focus assessing and potentially correcting for selection b...

The effects of noncontingency between subjects' responses and outcomes were examined with respect to treatment-and-posttest similarity and skill in the task. The experimental design consisted of three groups. The first group had to solve chess problems with objective solutions and received veridical feedback; each member of the second group faced problems with no objective solutions, and receiv...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of contextual interference on balance of mentally retarded people. for this purpose, 40 educable and mentally retarded boys in qazvin city (mean age 24.45 ± 3.120) were randomly divided into two groups: blocked and random practice. after the pretest, given their practice arrangement, subjects in each group performed their workout for 4 ...

this study aims to better understand the effect of practice schedule and feedback providing types. in two separate experiments the contextual interference effect in bandwidth and self-control feedback conditions on relative and absolute timing learning was examined. in experiment i, the effect of contextual interference using bandwidth and self-control feedback on absolute timing learning (para...

the purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of self – control modeling , that is presenting moded to learner whenever they asked for it, on learning a timing task.twenty four right handed subjects (12 males, 12 females, aged 19-20) voluntarily participated in the study and were assigned randomly to two groups of self – control and yoked.the task was pressing the keys number 1, 4...

the present study aimed at determining the relationship between learning styles and the effect of random and blocked practices on learning of badminton serve skills.  in this quasi-experimental study, 48 female high school students were randomly placed in four groups: 1. convergent learning style with random practice, 2. convergent learning style with blocked practice, 3. divergent learning sty...

In 2 experiments, the authors assessed different knowledge of results (KR) schedules for observational and physical practice. In Experiment 1, participants had to learn a sequence timing task under either a bandwidth (KR being delivered when participants’ performance was outside a predefined bandwidth or range) or yoked (same number of KRs provided as the bandwidth group) KR procedure. The resu...

As compared with providing extrinsic feedback on each of a set of practice trials, reducing the feedback frequency in various ways facilitates long-term retention. One explanation is that frequent feedback operates proactively on the subsequent trial, inducing excessive variability that degrades learning. We tested this view by giving or not giving feedback "reminders," where the postresponse f...