- Title
- The contribution of structured activity and deliberate play to the development of expert perceptual and decision-making skill
- Creator
- Berry, Jason; Cote, Jean
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58407
- Identifier
- vital:108
- Identifier
- ISSN:0895-2779
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.30.6.685
- Abstract
- The developmental histories of 32 players in the Australian Football League (AFL), independently classified as either expert or less skilled in their perceptual and decision-making skills, were collected through a structured interview process and their year-on-year involvement in structured and deliberate play activities retrospectively determined. Despite being drawn from the same elite level of competition, the expert decision-makers differed from the less skilled in having accrued, during their developing years, more hours of experience in structured activities of all types, in structured activities in invasion-type sports, in invasion-type deliberate play, and in invasion activities from sports other than Australian football. Accumulated hours invested in invasion-type activities differentiated between the groups, suggesting that it is the amount of invasion-type activity that is experienced and not necessarily intent (skill development or fun) or specificity that facilitates the development of perceptual and decision-making expertise in this team sport. © 2008 Human Kinetics, Inc.; C1
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
- Relation
- Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Vol. 30, no. 6 (2009), p. 685-708
- Rights
- Copyright Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1701 Psychology; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1702 Cognitive Science; Learning; Practice; Skills development; Sport expertise
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