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Wrisberg Year:  2007 Length:  416 pages Price:  £49.50  Quantity:  Overview: The student-friendly fourth edition of Motor Learning and Performance expands on the fundamentals of motor performance and learning, providing valuable supporting literature and current research results. The text goes beyond simply presenting the latest research. Instead, the authors challenge students not only to grasp but also apply the fundamental concepts of motor performance and learning via a unique situation-based approach. By working through situation-based exercises and case studies, students learn how to ask appropriate questions, identify solutions and support their answers to theory or research. Contains more than 76 new references, exercises, updated figures and photos and improved chapter features makes the 4th edition the most user-friendly edition to date. Each chapter is organised to include and outline listing the major topics to be presented, objectives that alert students to key content for mastery, an opening case study that previews the content within the context of a real-life example and research highlight boxes to provide more detailed descriptions of important experiments and concepts. Also included is a running glossary for instant definitions of terms as they are introduced in the text. Contents: Getting started Processing information and making decisions Sensory contributions to skilled performance review Movement production and motor programs Principles of motor control and movement accuracy preview Individual differences and motor abilities Preparing for the learning experience Supplementing the learning experience Structuring the learning experience Providing feedback during the learning experience Facilitating learning and performance Applying the principles of skill learning About the Author: Richard A. Schmidt, PhD, heads his own consulting firm, Human Performance Research, in Marina del Rey, California, in which he works on issues in human performance, human factors, and ergonomics. He is also a professor of psychology (emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. Known as one of the research leaders in motor behavior, Dr. Schmidt has 35 years of experience and has published widely in his field. The originator of schema theory, Dr. Schmidt founded the Journal of Motor Behavior and was its editor for 11 years. He authored the first edition of Motor Control and Learning in 1982 and Motor Learning and Performance in 1991, and has since followed up with new editions of both books. He received honorary doctorates from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and the Université Joseph Fourier, France, in recognition of his work. Dr. Schmidt is a member of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Psychonomic Society. He has received honorary doctorates from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Université Joseph Fourier France, for contributions to his research field. He has served as president of NASPSPA, and he received the C.H. McCloy Research Lectureship from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Craig A. Wrisberg, PhD, is a professor in the department of sport and leisure studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he has taught since 1977. During the past 30 years he has published numerous research articles on the topics of anticipation and timing in performance, knowledge of results and motor learning, and the role of cognitive strategies in sport performance. In 1982 he received the Brady Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 1994 the Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement. A former president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Dr. Wrisberg is a fellow of both the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education and the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Wrisberg provides mental training services for student-athletes in the men's and women's athletics departments at Tennessee. In his work with athletes, he applies many of the important concepts and principles covered in this edition of Motor Learning and Performance using the problem-based learning approach on a consistent basis. Understanding Motor Development - Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adults Focuses on the phases of motor development

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