Information Processing Flashcards
To understand the key features of the the information processing system
Can you list the key terms associated with Whiting’s model, in order?
- Display
- Receptor systems
- Perceptual mechanism
- Selective attention
- Translatory mechanism
- Effector Mechanism
- Muscular System
- Output data
- Feedback data
What is the DISPLAY?
This is EVERYTHING that COULD be detected in the ENVIRONMENT and that is DISPLAYED to the performer, whether or not it is important to the skill production.
There is a LOT of information here.
What are the RECEPTOR SYSTEMS?
Our sense organs which detect the information. Eyes, ears, muscles. More accurately the VISION, AUDITION and PROPRIOCEPTION of the performer
What is the PERCEPTUAL MECHANISM?
This ‘makes sense’ of the environment and uses information stored in memory to help. More experienced performers would PERCEIVE or UNDERSTAND the environment more accurately.
What is SELECTIVE ATTENTION?
The process that eliminates the irrelevant information and uses the key stimuli to help produce a response.
SELECTIVE ATTENTION is supported massively by experience and reduces the amount of information
What is the TRANSLATORY MECHANISM?
This is where the decisions are made and a response is planned based on the information that has been selectively attended to and understood.
What is the EFFECTOR MECHANISM?
This is where messages are sent from the brain to the muscles telling them to contract in order to produce movement.
What is the MUSCULAR system?
The muscles produce the actual physical movement that IS the response to the environmental stimuli.
What is OUTPUT Data?
This is initial feeback about how the movement felt as it was produced. This feedback is INTRINSIC. This feedback is used to detect and correct errors.
What is FEEDBACK data?
This is EXTRINSIC Feedback that comes to the performer from outside of themselves. The results of the actions, the visual and auditory feedback (what did I see and hear?). This feedback is used to detect and correct errors.
