Decision Making in Team Sports

Question 1

Which study investigated decision making in Football

Answer 1

Vaeyens et al., (2007)

Question 2

What did Vaeyens et al., (2007) find?

Answer 2

• Skilled players made
more accurate
responses
• Required less time
to make decisions

Question 3

What are the findings around Eye Movements and Decision Making

Answer 3

• Skilled players had
a greater number of
fixations (shorter
mean fixation
duration) than less
successful
• Skilled players
appeared to
‘search’ more than
less-successful

Question 4

Define Inattentional Blindness

Answer 4

“…failure to detect an
unexpected object or event if attention is
diverted to another task or object, even if it is
right in front of the observer” (Simons &
Chabris, 1999)

Question 5

Does the information we
hold in WM influence
decision making?

Answer 5

• Biased Competition
Theory of Selective
Attention (Desimone &
Duncan, 1995)
– Information stored in WM
may affect the way we
search the environment

Question 6

Who performed a study investigating WM and Decision making in Sport

Answer 6

(Furley et al., 2013)

Question 7

Name a study looking into above real-time testing in sport

Answer 7

Lorains et al. (2012)

Question 8

What did Lorains et al. (2012)

Answer 8

The accuracy of videos were...
> Elite players best
at high-speed
> Sub-elite players
decrease at highspeed
> Novice perf.
constant

Question 9

Do experts ‘scan’ more than

novices?

Answer 9

• There is a relationship between the number of exploratory actions and decision making
• % of passing accuracy
improved