Motor Performance and Response Consistency as a Function of Age
- 1 June 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Motor Behavior
- Vol. 3 (2) , 105-109
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.1971.10734897
Abstract
The specificity versus generality of motor performance and motor response consistency was investigated as a function of age. 120 Ss, 30 each at age 7, 11, 15, and 19 yr., were given 120 practice trials (60 trials per session with 24 hr interpolated between sessions) on both simple and choice RT tasks. For motor performance the reliability of individual differences was high in both tasks at all ages, while the amount of generality was moderately high in the two younger groups but diminished with age. The reliability coefficients for motor response consistency were low for both tasks but, with two exceptions, statistically significant. There was no evidence for generality in motor response consistency at any age.Keywords
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