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The types of strategies individuals use and how they use them over time potentially determines adaptability, their ability to learn, and their performance. The prior knowledge and experience people bring to a dynamic task can influence these task interactions. This study investigated the strategies used, strategy variability, performance, and learning over a 2-3 month time period in a complex, dynamic task environment between two groups of individuals that differed on their prior knowledge of the task domain of football coaching. The two groups displayed distinctly different patterns of strategy use, development, learning, and performance over time. One group focused on improving their domain knowledge base while the other refined their strategy repertoire and showed improved performance over time.

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The Effects of Prior Knowledge on Strategy Development & Performance

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