PML L4

Question 1

Anti- or nonrepresentational theory (ART)

Answer 1

• perception and action are direct
• information is meaningful
• no mental representations
• conceive learning as a change in the relation between organism and
  environment, skill attunement

Question 2

Ecological psychology

Answer 2

no internal processes/representations

Question 3

Affordances

Answer 3

possibilities for action, rather than distances, sizes, shapes etc.

Question 4

Specificity of information

Answer 4

1. The Environment specifies Information (i.e., E –> I)
   – similarly, Information is specific for the Environment (i.e., I –> E)
2. Information specifies Perception (i.e., I –> P)
   – similarly, Perception is specific for the Information (i.e., P –> I)

Question 5

Law of control

Answer 5

M(t) = a + b * I(t)

M= movement
I = information (attuning)
a+b = calibrating

Question 6

Education of attention

Answer 6

change of information l(t) that is coupled to movement M(t)
- Implies a change from the pick-up of non-specifying to specifying information
variables

Question 7

Occlusion paradigm

Answer 7

experts use early (advance) information from opponent’s
movement, while beginners rely on ball flight information

o Indicates education of attention, use of different information depending on
skill level