Improvement strategies in free-throw shooting and grip-strength tasks.
Participants performed a free-throw shooting task and a grip-strength task before and after imagery, nonspecific arousal, or no instructions. Imagery improved performance in the free-throw shooting task, which is assumed to have more cognitive components than the grip-strength task. Imagery did not improve performance in the grip-strength task, which is assumed to have fewer cognitive components than the free-throw task. Nonspecific arousal, on the other hand, improved performance in the grip-strength task but not in the free-throw shooting task. Athletic experience, confidence levels, and gender were correlated with actual performance levels in both tasks, but not with improvement. Results are discussed within the transfer-appropriate processing framework.
Peynircioğlu
Z F
ZF
Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
Thompson
J L
JL
Tanielian
T B
TB
D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D018737:Hand Strength; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013177:Sports; D014163:Transfer, Psychology