chapter 5-6 Flashcards
motives for participation
- fun
- learn new skills
- physical fitness and enjoy health
- enjoy challenge
- team atmosphere and gain friends
information processing model
the information processing model contains a stimulus.and a response, but a are number of mental operations occur between the two
memory storage
place to save important information
retrieval
enables us to use the information to Mae decisions about forthcoming responses
sensory register
sensory information store
short term memory
working memory
chunking
combing several separate pieces of information into larger ones
long term memory
relatively permanent
information conveyed bits
transmitted by a particular problem is measured in BITS of information (short term binary digit)
gate out
ignore
selective attention
relevant information
attentional focus
athletes ability to attend to appropriate stimuli during competition
attentional narrowing
cue utilization
processing capacity
space
capacity model
more than ne task isa ended to at one time