Year 11 - Physical education
Basic information processing
Sport psychology: goal setting, guidance and feedback
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Unit Summary
This unit develops understanding of how goal setting and SMART targets can be used effectively to improve performance as well as unpicking the different types of guidance and feedback that help us learn sporting skills.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify and explain each stage of the basic information processing model.
Key Notes
- Information processing involves interpreting sensory input, making decisions and sending commands to muscles.
- The input stage receives information from the environment via selective attention to focus on relevant details.
- Decision making involves selecting an appropriate response by accessing both long-term and short-term memory.
- During the output stage, the chosen response is transmitted as signals to the muscles to execute the action.
- Feedback provides information on performance and helps with future improvements
Vocabulary To Learn
- information processing: making decisions and gathering data from the display (senses), prioritising the most important stimuli to make a suitable decision
- input stage: information from the display
- decision making: selection of appropriate response from the short and long-term memory
- output stage: information sent to the muscles to carry out a response
- feedback: information a performer receives from self (intrinsic) or others (extrinsic)
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The input part of the model is largely based on being able to use sight to inform the brain.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Information processing involves interpreting sensory input, making decisions and sending commands to muscles. The input stage receives information from the environment via selective attention to focus on relevant details.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'information processing'
making decisions and gathering data from the display (senses), prioritising the most important stimuli to make a suitable decision.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: The input part of the model is largely based on being able to use sight to inform the brain. Correction: Input is gathering data from all the senses. In sport, these can be what you see, hear, feel and touch.
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