Knowledge Development and Sport Skill Performance: Directions for Motor Behavior Research

Jerry R. Thomas · Karen E. French · Charlotte Humphries

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Sport Psychology and Performance Motor Control and Adaptation Sports and Physical Education Research

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In this paper we propose that research in motor behavior has failed to meet the obligation of studying how children learn important sport skills. In particular, understanding the specific sport knowledge base is essential to studying skilled sport behavior. To support this view we review the research in the cognitive area relative to the development of expertise. We then attempt to justify why a similar approach is useful for motor behavior researchers and why they should undertake the study of sport skill acquisition. Finally, we offer a paradigm within which sport skill research might take place.

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