Skill Acquisition in Sport gives academics, students, coaches and practitioners the broadest and most scientifically rigorous grounding in the principles and practice of the field. Fully revised, updated and restructured, the third edition integrates theory and practice, and provides more material on practical application than ever before.
Divided into four sections - providing instruction and feedback, organizing effective practice, training high-level skills, and the theories and mechanisms underpinning skill acquisition - the book covers a full range of key topics, including:
the role of errors and rewards in motor learning
instructions, demonstrations and feedback
imagery in motor learning
constraints-based and self-directed learning
technique change, creativity training and visual gaze training
practicing under pressure
the neurophysiology of learning.
Based on the latest research, including chapters on emerging topics, and written by a global cast of world-leading experts, Skill Acquisition in Sport is an essential textbook for any kinesiology or sport science student taking skill acquisition, expertise development or motor learning classes.
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
