Decision making in sport

Question 1

what were the results of decision making in football match play situation?

Answer 1

• Skilled players made more accurate responses
• Also required less time to to make decision
• decision time and accuracy dependent on the attacker, defender ratio.

Question 2

what were the results of decision making while watching video

Answer 2

• Skilled players had greater number of fixations and had a less average time on fixations
• Skilled players also appeared to ‘search’ more than less skilled.

Question 3

What is Inattentional Blindness?

Answer 3

Failure to detect unexpected objects or events if attention is diverted to another task or object. (gorilla test)

Question 4

What is Printing and working memory?

Answer 4

The cognitive mechanism capable of retaining a small amount of info in an active state for use in ongoing tasks

Question 5

what did the biased competition theory of selective attention (Desimone and Duncan, 1995) show?

Answer 5

That info stored in WM may affect the way we search the environment.