Factors that influence response time

Question 1

Hick’s Law

Answer 1

• Hicks law states that the more choices we have, the slower the reaction time
• As you become more familiar w/ opponents and their skills you start to learn them and their environment becomes more familiar, you get slightly quicker w/ reactions
• Curve on graph gets less steep and curves over

Question 2

Single channel hypothesis

Answer 2

• states that only one stimulus can be processed at a time.
• the second one has to wait to be processed.
• this delay increases response time and helps explain Hicks Law

Question 3

Psychological refractory period

Answer 3

• a delay when a second stimulus is presented before the first has been processed
• it refers to the delay in response to the second of closely spaced out stimui - linked to reaction time and stimulus response bond

Question 4

Example of PRP: tennis

Answer 4

• S1: player 1 plays a forehand drive towards player 2’s forehand
• R1: player 2 preps to return w/ forehand drive
• S2: ball hits net and changes direction
• R2: player 2 must change shot selection from forehand to backhand
• PROBLEM: performer is locked in to response to S1. This must be processed before they can react to S2

Question 5

More on PRP

Answer 5

• the brain can only deal w/ one piece of info at a time/respond to one stimulus at a time
• the second stimulus arrives in close succession
• one signal must be cleared before anoter can be responded to due to single channel hypothesis

Question 6

What is anticipation?

Answer 6

• attempting to predict that a movement will happen

Question 7

What is spatial anticipation?

Answer 7

• performer predicts what is going to happen
• e.g. badminton, the perfomer detects a slight change in the shot action and expects a drop shot

Question 8

What is temporal anticipation?

Answer 8

• performer predicts when the action will happen
• e.g. football, defender tried to guess when attacker will pass the ball