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Sport-Specific Practice and the Development of Expert Decision-Making in Team Ball Sports
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The role of sport-specific practice in the development of decision-making expertise in the sports of field hockey, netball, and basketball was examined. Fifteen expert decision-makers and 13 experienced non-expert athletes provided detailed information about the quantity and type of sport-specific and other related practice activities they had undertaken throughout their careers. Experts accumulated more hours of sport-specific practice from the age of 12 years onwards than did non-experts, spending on average some 13 years and 4,000 hours on concentrated sport-specific practice before reaching international standard. A significant negative correlation existed between the number of additional activities undertaken and the hours of sport-specific training required before attaining expertise, suggesting a functional role for activities other than sport-specific training in the development of expert decision-making.
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- Baker, J., Cote, J., & Abernethy, B.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2003-01
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 12-25
- ISSN
- 1041-3200 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-1571
- OpenAlex
- W1999427504
- Cited by
- 563
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 15.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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