Information Processing Flashcards
What is selective attention?
When a performer learns to focus on the relevant stimuli and ignore the irrelevant stimuli e.g. a crowd
What is the order of information processing?
Display Input (senses & receptors) Perceptual mechanism Translatory mechanism Effector mechanism Output (muscular contractions) Feedback
What is the definition of display?
The physical environment surrounding the performer contains various stimuli, which then the performer has to select which is relevant at the time.
That are the sense organs?
Sight-eyes
Touch-skin
Hearing-ears
Proprioception-muscle spindles
What is proprioception?
Gathering information from inside the body via nerve receptors in the muscle and joint.
What is the perceptual mechanism and what does it do?
Detecting information, comparing the long term memory and then recognising that information.
What does the translators mechanism do?
Decides what movement to actually do, based on previous experiences.
What does the effector mechanism do?
The motor programme is released and completed by the performer.
Neural commands are sent by the brain to the muscle to tell performer to make that specific movement.
What is feedback?
From 2 sources:
Extrinsic- from outside e.g. Coach telling you, you did good.
Intrinsic- what your opinion is and what you thought of it.
What are the 5 ways you can improve selective attention?
- Motivate the athlete
- Increase the intensity of the stimuli
- Learn to ignore irrelevant stimuli
- Mental rehearsal
- Direct the performers attention to one aspect of the performance
What is order of memory?
Short-term sensory store
Selective attention
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
What are the characteristics for the short-term sensory store?
Takes in everything
0.5 second storage
Selective attention takes place here
What are the characteristics for the short-term memory?
- Stores 5-9 pieces of information
- Store for approx 30 seconds
- Receives feedback
- Compares input info to long-term
- Initiates the movement by realising a motor programme
What are the characteristics of the long -term memory
Unlimited
Store of past experience
Requires some kind of chemical change in the brain for info to be stored in the ltm.
Only rehearsed and meaningful information enters the long-term store.
Store of motor programmes
What are the 4 strategies to improve memory?
Chunking- group info together
Mental rehearsal- visualisation
Repeat movement- practice
Chaining -linking information together