Vickers J N, Livingston L F, Umeris-Bohnert S, Holden D
Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
J Sports Sci. 1999 May;17(5):357-67. doi: 10.1080/026404199365876.
Novice, intermediate and advanced baseball hitters followed a 7-week training programme, in which they received either behavioural training or decision training. Participants in the behavioural training group received simple-to-complex instruction, variable practice and an abundance of feedback throughout the acquisition period; the decision training group received complex instruction, variable practice and reduced delayed feedback. As predicted, the intermediate and advanced hitters who received decision training hit at a lower level (%) during acquisition but at a higher level during a transfer test in week 7. Novices in the behavioural training group were better than novices in the decision training group over both acquisition and transfer trials.
