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Information processing and skill aquisition Flashcards

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Motor behaviour

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Motor behaviour describes any motor action that is used to achieve a task or
goal.

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Motor control

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Perception and action

How we take in information and create movement)

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Motor learning

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How we learn and retain movement skills

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Motor development

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How we refine skills to become elite at performing them

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Neuroplasticity

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Brains ability to change its structure and function

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Human performance model

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Input
Executive
Effector
Output

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What are the names of the psychologists that created the human performance model

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Schmidt and Weisberg

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What are the 3 levels of the executive part of the model

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  • Stimulus identification (senses)
  • Response Selection
  • Response Programming
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What are the 3 levels of the effector

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  • Motor programme
  • Spinal cord
  • Muscle
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Perception (stimulus identification) part of the model

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Individual uses all their senses to search and absorb and interpret the environmental stimuli

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What impacts the speed of a stimulus (5)

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  • Familiarity
  • Experience
  • Number of stimuli
  • Practice
  • Signal intensity
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Response selection (decision making) part of the model

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  • The selection of one option from a set of 2 or more options
  • Then the individual selects an appropriate response from several options
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Memory and information processing

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Perception and decision making is dependent on the comparison of the present situation, held in the STM, with similar past experiences stored in the LTM

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Response programming (Action)

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The brain retrieves and organises a plan of action (motor program or schema) to control and direct the response

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Motor program

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A set of motor commands that is pre-structured at the executive level and that defines the essential details of a skilled action

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The effector

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Responsible for carrying out the instructions within from the schema and runs the motor program

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What are the key pathways in the effector mechanisms

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  • CNS
  • PNS
  • Neuromuscular junction
  • Muscle fibrilis
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Skill aquisition

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Is the science that underpins movement learning and execution and is more commonly termed motor learning and control

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Learning

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A set of internal processes associated with practice or experience leading to relatively permanent changes in the capability for skill

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What are the 2 types of learning

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  • Implicit learning
  • Explicit learning
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Explicit learning

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Learner consciously set out to learn the skill

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Implicit learning

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  • Subconscious learning
  • Being exposed to a skill while not consciously paying attention to it
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What are the 2 types of knowledge?

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  1. Declarative knowledge
  2. Procedural knowledge
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Declarative knowledge

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Knowing what to do

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Procedural knowledge

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Is being able to do the skill which is developed through practice

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What are Fitts and posners 3 stages of learning

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  1. Cognitive
  2. Fixation
  3. Autonomous
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Cognitive learning

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What actions need to be taken to achieve the goal

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Fixation learning

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Subtle changes and adjustments to new motor pattern to allow a more effective performance of the skill

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Autonomous learning

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Task can be performed with less interference from other ongoing activities

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How do we measure learning

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Performance curves

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What are the 8 types of practice

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  1. Massed
  2. Distributed
  3. Whole
  4. Part
  5. Whole-part-whole
  6. Blocked
  7. Serial
  8. Random
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Massed practice

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Where the time between trails is shorter than the time taken to undertake the task

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What are the limitations of massed practice

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Danger of boredom and fatigue affecting performance

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Distributed practice

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Where the break or rest time between trails is greater than the time taken to undertake the task

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What are the limitations of distributed practice

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Danger of being seen as a waste of time or lacking intensity

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Whole practice

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Develops technique and decision making as you practice the skill as a whole

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What are the limitations of whole practice

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Overload of information which may impact performance

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Part practice

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Develops technique without undue stress and overload as you breakdown the skill into parts and move on when that section is learned

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What are the limitations of part practice

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Performers fail to understand when and where to use the skills with in the wider context of the sport

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Whole-part-whole practice

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Whole and part practice combined

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Blocked practice

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Learner practices one skill continuously with no interference from the performance of other skills

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What are the benefits of blocked practice

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Higher short term performance gains

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Serial practice

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Learner practices a series of skills in order for a set number of trials

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What are the benefits of serial practice

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Higher long term performance gains, transfer and retention

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Random practice

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Athlete will perform two or more skills having random trials on each skill

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What are the benefits of random practice

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Cognitively demanding and helps decision making

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Specificity of practice

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  • Deliberate practice
  • Make it real and specific to the demands of the task and the context within which the task will be performed

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