5.2 Information processing

Question 1

Information processing

Answer 1

Making decisions, gathering data from a display, prioritising most important stimuli to make a qualitative decision.
Input — decision making — output — feedback

Question 2

Input

Answer 2

The information that is received from the senses. At the cognitive (early stages), this will overload the decision-making process.
As the learner becomes more skilled they select the relevant information, the correct cues and block out irrelevant information.
This is known as selective attention - attending to the most relevant sense.

Question 3

Decision making

Answer 3

Interprets the input using its short and long term memory and decides what, when, where and how the learner responds.
The short term memory (STM) is the working memory and holds information for up to 30 seconds.
The long term memory holds information for that has been rehearsed and stored.
If the past experience is relevant at the time, it is compared to the STM and a suitable decision is made.

Question 4

Output

Answer 4

The action or actions that respond to the situation.
Impulses are sent to the required parts of the body for appropriate muscular movements.

Question 5

Feedback

Answer 5

It will indicate whether or not the response was correct and successful.
It can be received intrinsically (within) or extrinsically (outside) regarding success or failure of the action.
Feedback can affect how we complete the skill in the future.