Information Processing

Question 1

What are the 5 senses?

Answer 1

Sight, sound, touch, balance, kinesthesis

Question 2

What is selective attention?

Answer 2

Filtering relevant information from irrelevant information

Question 3

What can a coach do to help improve a performers selective attention (2)

Answer 3

Focus on stimuli
Make stimuli loud/bright
Train with an atmosphere
Reward performer

Question 4

What is DCR

Answer 4

Detect , comparison, recognition,

Question 5

What 3 parts are in the central mechanisms of Whiting’s Model (1969)?

Answer 5

Perceptual, translator, effector (mechanisms)

Question 6

What are the 3 ‘sub systems’ of the working memory model compiled by Baddeley and Hitch (1978)

Answer 6

Phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer

Question 7

Outline the roles of each of the three subsystem’s:
- Visuospatial sketchpad
- Phonological loop
- Episodic buffer

Answer 7

Visuospatial sketchpad - helps process information about the feel of the movement

Phonological loop- deal with auditory information presented from the senses and helps produce a memory trace (an initial mental idea of the skill) then sent to the LTM to produce movement

The episodic buffer- coordinates the work of both phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad and produces integrated sequences of sight, sound and movements which can be sent to the LTM

Question 8

Outline the roles of each mechanism:
Perceptual, translator, effector

Answer 8

Perceptual : DCR
Translatory : translates senses and filters it, uses past experiences and converts info so decisions can be made
Effector: network of nerves responsible for delivering the decisions, will receive messages in form of coded impulses and muscles will contract + responses begin.

Question 9

How could a coach help store information in LTM?

Answer 9

• rewarding
• mental practice
• repetition of task
• chaining (recalling sequence - linking movement)