BENEFITS OF PROVIDING COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE STRATEGIES TO NOVICE PERFORMERS LEARNING A COMPLEX MOTOR SKILL

Verbal reports were collected from experienced performers during acqui sition trials of a novel throwing task and summarized as cognitive per formance strategies. These strategies were incorporated in the practic e regimen of 8 novices with no sport experience who learned the same t ask, A control group of 8 novices practiced the task without the exper ts' cognitive performance strategies. The performance of the novices w ho used the strategies was similar to that of the experts and signific antly better than the performance of the control novices.