Degenerate Brains, Indeterminate Behavior, and Representative Tasks: Implications for Experimental Design in Sport Psychology Research

Handbook of Sport Psychology: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 224-244

  Davids, Keith ^a   Araújo, Duarte ^b   Button, Chris ^c   Renshaw, Ian ^d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cultural pastimes; Human movement systems; Indeterminate behavior; Laboratory studies; Motor behavior experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886217406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118270011.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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