Association for Behavior Analysis International

This symposium has three papers discussing research evaluating the use of immediate auditory feedback (sometimes referred to as TAGteach) for enhancing athletic performance across three sports. The auditory feedback (AF) in these studies is delivered with a clicker much like the ones used in animal training. The first paper evaluated AF delivered by peers in a multiple baseline across dance movements to enhance dance performance among teenage dancers. The second study used a multiple baseline across participants to evaluate AF for enhancing performance of individuals performing Judo moves. The third paper used a multiple baseline across yoga postures to evaluate AF to increase proficiency in yoga poses. In each study, the target behaviors improved with the introduction of the AF intervention. John Stokes, who has used AF to enhance the effectiveness of pass-blocking skills among high school football players, will be the discussant and will comment on each of the papers.

This study utilized a new teaching technology, TAGteach, to aide in skill acquisition of novice yoga practitioners. The current study focused on teaching three beginner asanas (poses). The intervention included breaking down the asanas into task analysis steps and using a clicker as auditory feedback for each correctly completed step. The intervention, evaluated in a multiple baseline across behaviors design, increased the percentage of correctly performed steps for all three poses.