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Promoting Exploration During Learning: Effect of Imposed and Self-Controlled Practice Schedules on Learners’ Behavioral Flexibility

John Komar
Ludovic Seifert

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Purpose: Enriching learners’ motor repertoires in a complex pluri-articular task, such as climbing, could help learners’ adaptation to various sets of task constraints. Promoting exploration with variable practice conditions is one solution recurrently proposed. However, recent studies have shown that a too elevated exploration-exploitation ratio during practice could impair learning. A proposed solution is to give learners some control over their practice schedule, which appeared to better respect the individual learning dynamic in comparison to the usual experimenter-imposed practice schedule. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate whether giving learners the possibility of controlling when to confront to new climbing routes would result in greater flexibility in their motor repertoire compared to giving them an imposed schedule of climbing routes or a constant practice condition. Method: Participants were assigned to either a constant practice group (CPG), an imposed-variability group (IVG) or a self-controlled variability group (SVG) to carry out a climbing task. To assess participants’ behavioral flexibility, a scanning procedure was conceived by manipulating the route design and the instructions. Results: Participants showed an initial lack of flexibility as they strongly relied on a single coordination pattern. At posttest and retention, the three groups more frequently used a new hand coordination pattern and more often showed coordination patterns associated with high climbing fluency. Results suggest that the individualized rate of exploration in the self-controlled practice condition may have helped the learners improve their flexibility, whereas forcing exploration did not seem more beneficial than constant practice in this complex pluri-articular task.

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Psychologie
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hal-04481485 , version 1 (28-03-2024)
hal-04481485 , version 2 (10-04-2024)

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Guillaume Hacques, John Komar, Ludovic Seifert. Promoting Exploration During Learning: Effect of Imposed and Self-Controlled Practice Schedules on Learners’ Behavioral Flexibility. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2024, pp.1-11. ⟨10.1080/02701367.2023.2300967⟩. ⟨hal-04481485v2⟩
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