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When skilled athletes were surveyed about their use of mental imagery, which general type(s) of imagery did they tend to use most often?

Which of the following best describes a general rule about practice distribution schedules for the length and distribution of practice sessions? While there may be exceptions, what is best.

In the experiment by Hall et al., which involved skilled baseball players taking extra batting practice to improve their hitting of three different types of pitches, the results demonstrated that the contextual interference effect is

For open skills, regulatory conditions

Although research evidence supports overlearning as an effective practice strategy for learning certain skills, it is important to remember that the amount of practice is

The Carson and Kelso experiment, in which participants did simple finger flexion movements to be on the beat or just off the beat of a metronome, showed that to fully understand the neural correlates of motor control which of the following do we need to know in addition to identifying brain region and muscle innervation characteristics?

When related to motor skills, the term task organization refers to the

If the type of skill is taken into account, massed practice and distributed practice schedules benefit the learning of which types of skills?

One common problem of much of the research investigating the massed vs. distributed practice issue is

Which term is sometimes used synonymously with the term closed motor skills?