Information Processing Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is information processing?
The methods by which data from the environment are collected and utilised.
What is the input stage?
Information picked up by the senses.
What is the display in a sporting context?
The sporting environment.
What is the receptor system?
The senses that pick up information from the display.
What is kinesthesis?
The inner sense that gives information about body position and muscular tension.
What is selective attention?
Filtering relevant information from irrelevant information.
What are stimuli?
The important and relevant items of information from the display such as the flight of the ball.
What is perception?
The process of coding and interpreting sensory information.
What are translatory mechanisms?
Adapting and comparing information to memory so that decisions can be made.
What is the effector mechanism?
The network of nerves that sends coded impulses to the muscles.
What is working memory?
A system that performs a number of functions.
What is the central executive?
The control center of the working memory model, using three other systems to control all information moving in and out of the memory system.
What is the phonological loop?
Deals with auditory information from the senses and helps produce the memory trace.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
Used to temporarily store visual and spatial information.
What is the episode buffer?
Coordinates the sight, hearing, and movement information from the working memory into sequences to be sent to long term memory.
What is long term memory?
Receives information from the working memory and has an unlimited capacity for the storage of motor programs.
What is association in memory?
Linking the stored actions of a skill to a stored emotion or other action.
What is chunking?
Breaking the skill action into parts or sub-routines.
What are motor programs?
A set of movements stored in the memory that specify the components of a skill.
What are initial conditions?
Information from the environment.
What is response specification?
Information about what to do.
What is recall schema?
Initiates movement, comes before the action.
What is recognition schema?
Controls movement, happens during the action.
What are sensory consequences?
Information about the feel of the movement.
