instructional self-talk on learning of Fundamental skills of Basketball with degrees of complexity and difficulty

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Humanities and Psychology Sciences of Yazd University

2 Alzahra uni, Sport Science Faculty

Abstract

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine effects of instructional self-talk on the acquisition and retention of task with degrees of complexity and difficulty on Fundamental skills of basketball in female students.
Materials and Methods: The 57 female students with an average age 19±0.82 were divided to 4 groups including: task with low complexity, “fast dribble” high complexity, “dribble with obstacle” low difficulty “throw from 1.5 m”, high difficulty “throw from 3 m”. Before the training of subjects, pre-test was performed. The subjects in the acquisition, 16 blocks of 5 trials practiced then, the acquisition test, after a week performed 1 block of 5 trials in the retention test. The data were analyzed by one way ANOVA, Bonferroni post hoc test.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between experimental with degree of complexity and difficulty groups, in the acquisition and retention tests. These findings suggested that instruction self-talk is an effective factor on the performance and learning tasks with degree of complexity and difficulty, is also effective on some degree of low or high of complexity and difficulty.So that this effect was observed in a low complexity and difficulty.
Conclusion: It seems instructional self-talk effect acquisition and learning of Fundamental skills of Basketball with degrees of complexity and difficulty. In addition this effectiveness observed in low of degrees of complexity and difficulty in respect of high degrees of complexity and difficulty

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