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Skill Acquisition in Sport gives students, coaches and practitioners the broadest and most scientifically rigorous grounding in the principles and practice of the discipline. Fully revised and restructured, the third edition integrates theory and practice, and provides more material on practical application than ever before.
List of contents
Preface: The Science Behind Sport Skill Acquisition: What’s New, What Stood the Test of Time and What Are the Future Challenges?
Section 1: Providing Instruction and Feedback
1. Enhancing Motor Skill Acquisition with Augmented Feedback
2. Changing Automatized Movement Patterns
3. Errors, rewards, and reinforcement in motor skill learning
4. Motor Imagery Practice and Skilled Performance in Sport: From Efficacy to Mechanisms
5. Further advances in implicit motor learning
Section 2: Organizing Effective Practice
6. Contextual Interference: New Findings, Insights, and Implications for Skill Acquisition
7. Self-controlled Learning: Current Findings, Theoretical Perspectives, and Future Directions
8. Learning together: Observation and other mechanisms which mediate shared practice contexts
9. Constraints-Led Learning in Practice: Designing effective learning environments
10. Operationalizing deliberate practice for performance improvement in sport
Section 3: High-level Skill Training
11. Sports training technologies: Achieving and assessing transfer
12. Models of game intelligence and creativity in sport: Implications for skill acquisition
13. Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise and Simulation-Based Training in Sport
14. Mental toughness training
15. Staying cool under pressure: Developing and maintaining emotional expertise in sport
Section 4: Mechanisms and Models of Skill Acquisition
16. Motor Skill learning and its Neurophysiology
17. Appropriate Failure to Create Effective Learning: Optimizing Challenge
18. Ecological Dynamics and Transfer from practice to performance in sport
19. The Development of skill and Interest in Sport
Summary
Skill Acquisition in Sport gives students, coaches and practitioners the broadest and most scientifically rigorous grounding in the principles and practice of the discipline. Fully revised and restructured, the third edition integrates theory and practice, and provides more material on practical application than ever before.
