Perceptual-Cognitive Skill Flashcards
What is Perceptual-cognitive skills?
The ability to identify and acquire environmental information for integration with existing knowledge to facilitate selection of appropriate responses
Key perceptual-cognitive skills include…
- Pattern recognition
- Anticipation
- Decision making
- Visual search
- Visual exploratory activity
What is Anticipation?
The ability of a performer to predict what is likely to happen before an event occurring
(William & Ford)
What is decision making?
The ability to select and execute an action based on the current situation and the knowledge possessed
(William& Ford)
identify two examples of kinematic information
- Postural cue usage
- Pattern recognition
What Is Postural cue usage?
The ability to pick-up early or advanced cues from postural orientation of opponents eg. run-up, body position.
What is pattern recognition?
The ability to recognise task specific patterns and structure in an evolving situation
What process underpins the pick-up of key information sources used on anticipation
- Effective visual search
Fixation location and duration…
- Fixation location indicates critical cues
- Fixation duration indicates information processing demands.
Name two sources of contextual information that have been shown to underpin anticipation
Explain temporal and spatial occlusion methods and how these methods are used to understand perceptual-cognitive skill
Give an example of an if-then rule that could be used to train decision making in a sport of your choice
Describe an example of how postural cues are used to underpin perceptual-cognitive skill in a sport of your choice
Provide an example of how pattern recognition might be used in a sport of your choice
Name two key dependent measures when investigating visual search behaviour
