The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the choice about the task difficulty through a self-control in a motor skill learning. The specific goal was to probe the learning effects on the choice ranges in selecting the task difficulty...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the choice about the task difficulty through a self-control in a motor skill learning. The specific goal was to probe the learning effects on the choice ranges in selecting the task difficulty. Participants(n=40) were college students, who had no experience about the golf putting. They were divided into 4 groups, which consisted of self-control group, yoke group, limited self-control group and limited yoke group. The experimental task was to putt the ball as accurate as possible. All participants performed pre-test which consisted of 9 trials. At the acquisition phase, 1 block consisted of 9 trials, participants performed total of 54 trials and after approximately 24 hours they went through transfer phase 1 and 2. For the dependent variable, RE(radial error) which represent performance of the absolut error and BVE(bivariate variable error) which represent consistency of performance has been used. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and two-way ANOVA with repeated measures. The results were as follows; First, RE and BVE were no significant difference among groups at the pre-test phase. These results show that all participant had a similar putting level before acquisition phase. Second, RE and BVE were significant difference according to the block, however there were no significant difference among groups and interaction effect between group and block at the acquisition phase. Third, RE and BVE in transfer 1 were no significant difference among groups, while RE and BVE in transfer 2 were significant difference among groups.