Skill Acqusition (memory)

Question 1

How many pieces of information can the short-term sensory store hold?

Answer 1

Unlimited

Question 2

How long can the short-term sensory store hold information for?

Answer 2

1 second

Question 3

What does the short-term sensory store recieve?

Answer 3

Stimuli from the environment

Question 4

What process takes place in the short-term sensory store?

Answer 4

Selective attention

Question 5

What is selective attention?

Answer 5

Blocking out irrelevant information and focusing on relevant information

Question 6

What is the benefit of selective attention?

Answer 6

It speeds up decision making and prevents information overload

Question 7

Give 3 ways a coach can improve selective attention…

Question 8

DCR stands for…

Answer 8

Detection, comparison, recognition

Question 9

How much information can the short-term memory hold?

Answer 9

5-9 pieces

Question 10

How long can the short-term memory hold information for?

Answer 10

Up to 30 seconds

Question 11

The short-term memory is also known as…

Answer 11

The working memory

Question 12

What does the short-term memory receive from the STSS?

Answer 12

Relevant information from the short-term sensory store

Question 13

Which process takes place in the short-term memory?

Answer 13

Decision making

Question 14

What does decision making mean?

Answer 14

Choosing a relevant motor programmes

Question 15

What does the short-term memory receive from the long-term memory?

Answer 15

Relevant motor programmes

Question 16

What does the short-term memory do with motor programmes

Answer 16

Initiates them

Question 17

What does initiating a motor programme mean?

Answer 17

Sending nerve impulses to the relevant muscles

Question 18

How much information can the long-term memory hold?

Answer 18

Unlimited

Question 19

How long can the long-term memory hold information from

Answer 19

An unlimited amount of time

Question 20

What 2 things does the long-term memory store?

Question 21

Where does the long-term memory send motor programmes?

Answer 21

Back to the short-term memory

Question 22

Give 3 ways that the retention of newly learnt information can be improved.

Question 23

What can positive reinforcement help to strengthen?

Answer 23

The SR bond

Question 24

What are the 3 stages of Welford’s Model?

Answer 24

Input, decision making, output

Question 25

What process takes place in the input stage of the Welford’s Model?

Answer 25

DCR

Question 26

What are the 3 central mechanisms of Whiting’s Model of Information Processing?

Answer 26

Perceptual mechanism, translatory mechanism, effector mechanism

Question 27

Which key process occurs in the perceptual mechanism?

Answer 27

Selective attention

Question 28

Which key process takes place in the translatory mechanism?

Answer 28

Decision making

Question 29

Which key process takes place in the effector mechanism?

Answer 29

Initiation of motor programmes