Dissociated Contextual Interference Effects in Children and Adults Journal Articles

abstract

• 24 7-yr.-old children and 24 university-age adults practiced a ballistic aiming task under either low contextual interference (blocked practice) or high contextual interference (random practice). All subjects performed 90 acquisition trials, followed by 20 transfer trials and 15 retention trials. Similar to previous findings, the adults performed the acquisition trials better under blocked than under random conditions, yet performed the retention and transfer tests better after random than blocked practice. No differences in acquisition were found between blocked and random practice conditions for the children; nevertheless, the random group performed the retention and transfer tests better than the blocked group. The results are discussed in relation to applied and theoretical issues of contextual interference.

authors

• Pollock, Barbara Jean
• Lee, Timothy

status

• published 

publication date

• June 1997

has subject area

• 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences (FoR)
• 1701 Psychology (FoR)
• 1702 Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Adult (MeSH)
• Attention (MeSH)
• Child (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Practice, Psychological (MeSH)
• Problem Solving (MeSH)
• Psychomotor Performance (MeSH)
• Retention, Psychology (MeSH)
• Sport Sciences (Science Metrix)
• Transfer, Psychology (MeSH)

published in

• Perceptual and Motor Skills  Journal

keywords

• MOTOR-SKILL ACQUISITION
• Psychology
• Psychology, Experimental
• RETENTION
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2466/pms.1997.84.3.851

PubMed ID

• 9172193

start page

• 851

end page

• 858

volume

• 84

issue

• 3