The Plymouth Student Scientist
Document Type
Psychology Article
Abstract
This current study investigates the effects of imitating a video of a professional darts player. Participants were asked to focus on, and then replicate either internal or external factors of a professional darts player’s throw. Contrary to previous research, it was found that participants performed best in the control condition, followed by the internal condition, with the external condition provoking the worst score in study 1. However, when instructions were changed in study 2, the control condition performed better than the external condition, followed by the internal condition: the differences in scores were shown to be significant by a one-way ANOVA F(2,48)= 3.95, p<0.05, showing that participants’ performance was significantly inhibited by both the video and instructions.
Publication Date
2013-07-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
161
Last Page
176
ISSN
1754-2383
Deposit Date
May 2019
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Goodhead, Matthew
(2013)
"The effects of focus of attention when imitating a professional darts player,"
The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24382/by45-e402
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol6/iss1/12
