The influence of professional expertise and task complexity upon the potency of the contextual interference effect

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 229-244

  Ollis, Stewart ^a   Button, Chris ^b   Fairweather, Malcolm ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Scottish Institute of Sport   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Contextual interference; Expertise; Retention of skills; Transfer of skills

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 13444304477     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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