Comparison the effect of the kind of motivational intervention on acquisition, retention and transfer of free throw basketball in un-trained youth female

The aim of this study was to compare the effect of the kind of motivational intervention on acquisition, retention and transfer of free throw basketball in un-trained youth female. 36 healthy and non-athlete girls (20-25 years), were divided into four groups of goal setting (n=12), task importance (n=12), feedback (n=12) and control (n=12) randomly. Protocol of acquisition stage included free throw basketball for 6 weeks, 3 sessions per week with 15 trails in each session with the presence of motivational factors in separate groups. Scores of free throw basketball test was recorded per session, and then post test was performed and finally after 2 weeks detraining, retention test was done in the same condition of pretest and transfer test with the change in throw angle (new condition) was performed 24 hours later. One way ANOVAs test, repeated measure ANOVA and Bonferroni Post Hoc test were used. Results showed that two groups (goal setting and feedback ones) performed beter significantly compared to other groups in acquisition test (post test) (p> 0.05). In retention test kept these differences as well (p> 0.05), whereas task importance and control groups had decrease in performance in retention. In transfer test, all groups shown decrement in performance by the difference that, this decrement was so low in two groups of goal setting and feedback. So learning of free throw of basketball in goal setting and feedback condition was more effective than other groups.