Acquisition and Performance of Sports Skills.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Companion Website -- 1 Skill, Ability and Performance -- Skill -- Classification of skills -- Ability -- Theories of performance -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 2 Sensation and Perception of External Information -- Information processing theory, sensation and perception -- Definition of perception -- Signal detection theory -- Pattern recognition -- Selective attention -- Visual search -- Individual differences -- Ecological psychology and perception -- Developmental factors -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 3 Decision Making and Working Memory -- Decision making -- Dynamical systems theory and goal achievement -- Child development -- Ageing -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 4 Reaction Time -- Reaction time, movement time and response time: definitions -- Inter- and intraindividual differences -- Hick-Hyman Law -- Probability and choice reaction time -- Psychological refractory period -- Stimulus and response factors -- Central executive tasks and reaction time -- Arousal and reaction time -- Development and reaction time -- Reaction time research findings as evidence for and against information processing theory -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 5 Anticipation -- Interceptive actions -- Watching the object to be intercepted -- Action systems theory and interceptive actions -- Perceptual anticipation -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 6 Motor Control -- Central nervous system-peripheral nervous system interaction -- Information processing theory and efferent organization -- Ecological psychology and motor control -- Development and motor control -- Practical implications -- Summary.

Brain and motor control -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 7 Memory -- Information processing theory and short-term memory -- Information processing theory and long-term memory -- Regional brain functions and memory -- Development and short-term and long-term memory -- Ecological psychology and attunement to affordances -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 8 Learning I: Types, Theories, Styles and Measurement -- Types of learning -- Cognitive theories of learning -- Dynamical systems theory and learning -- Learning and coaching/teaching styles -- Optimal periods of learning -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 9 Learning II: Instruction, Practice, Transfer of Training and Feedback -- Instruction -- Practice -- Contextual interference -- Dynamical systems theory and practice -- Transfer of training -- Transfer theories -- Feedback -- Practical implications -- Practice, observation and feedback -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 10 Motivation, Arousal, and Learning and Performance -- Motivation -- Motivational theories -- Developmental issues -- Arousal and performance -- Summary -- Test your knowledge -- Additional reading -- 11 Conclusion -- State of the art -- Information processing theory versus ecological psychology theories -- Neuroscientific input -- Appendix 1: Writing an Academic Paper -- Version one -- Version two -- Appendix 2: Test Your Knowledge Answers -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Appendix 3: Calculating Variable Error -- References -- Supplemental Images -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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