Y2 Skill Acquisition - Informational Processing

Question 1

What is the order of input and decision making?

Answer 1

INPUT -> DECISION MAKING -> OUTPUT -> FEEDBACK (cycle then repeats)

Question 2

Define informational processing.

Answer 2

Methods of data processed from the environment and used to make decisions

Question 3

What does the DCR acronym stand for?

Answer 3

D-Detection
C-Comparison
R-Recognition

Question 4

What is input?

Answer 4

How the environmental display is processed via sensory organs and receptors (how data is taken in)

Question 5

What is decision making?

Answer 5

how perceptual mechanisms work to choose selectively information which is required to be translated into movement. The 5 senses help decision making

Question 6

What is output?

Answer 6

How effector systems interact with muscular systems to provide responses to environmental display which has been processed.

Question 7

How can you develop selective attention?

Answer 7

Practice - The more you respond, the faster your reaction becomes

Focus - improves concentration on specific cues

Warm-ups - gives time to prepare the body fully

Mental Rehearsal - Preparing the mind for focus on cues

Question 8

What are the benefits of selective attention?

Answer 8

Prevention of Info overload - info overload can lead to over-arousal.
selective attention allows players to to focus on specific cues e.g. boxing out

Question 9

What is selective attention?

Answer 9

Where people focus their attention intentionally on a specific source of a sound or spoken words.

Question 10

What are the 3 internal senses?

Answer 10

Kinaesthesis
Balance
Touch

Question 11

What are the two external senses?

Answer 11

Sight
Hearing