Citation

Cotten DJ, Thomas JR, Spieth WR, Biasiotto J. J. Mot. Behav. 1972; 4(4): 217-222.

Affiliation

a Department of Physical Education , Georgia Southern College.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1972, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00222895.1972.10734937

PMID

23961703

Abstract

75 male college Ss were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups to investigate the comparative effects of initial and initial-plus-interpolated total-body physical fatigue upon learning and performance of a gross motor skill. Each S was tested on the Mirror Target Toss Test before and after the appropriate experimental condition allotted to his group: initial, initial-plus-interpolated, and rest. The data were transformed into learning scores by the percent of possible improvement method and analyzed by a simple analysis of variance. Despite substantial effects on the performance curves, neither initial nor interpolated fatigue had any permanent effect on the acquisition of skill.

Language: en