Memory + Information processing

• Main Sensory inputs

  • Visual input
  • Auditory input
  • Touch input
  • Proprioceptive input
• Information Processing definition

  The set of activities, done in a particular sequence by which data produce information
• Stimulus identification definition

  Decide if a stimulus has occurred and this is done by our sensory systems recalling information
• Response Selection definition

  Selecting correct skills to use for the situation they are in (decision making)
• Response programming definition

  Receives the decision about which movement to make and is responsible for organising our system to carry out the appropriate movement
• Welford's model, 1968

  Detection>Comparison>Recognition

  A) D>C>R

  B)

  
• Whiting's Model

  PTE, selective attention, then decision making

  
• Short term sensory store

  Infor received by our sense organs, selective attention occurs. Info only held for a few seconds
• Short Term Memory

  • "Working memory"
  • Holds around 7 +/- 2 items for 30-60 seconds
  • Chunking can occur to expand short term memory
  • Transfers/retrieves info from long term memory.
  • Repetition helps retain info from short term memory
• Long Term memory

  • Store of past experiences with unlimited stores
  • Motor programmes are stores in here
  • Can remember stuff forever
  • Passes info to short term memory to contribute in decisions
• Strategies to improve/increase efficiency of STSS/SA

  • Provide experience
  • Quality of instruction
  • Arousal
  • Stimulus intensity
  • Train in front of a crowd
  • Visualisation
  • Implement attentional focus drills
  • Attentional narrowing
  • Attentional cues
• strategies to improve efficiency of Short term memory

  • Chunking, put info into manageable pieces
  • Intensify stimulus and make it more recognisable
  • Avoid info overload, focus on relevant cues
• Strategies to improve long term memory

  • Lots of physical practise/repetitive drills
  • Use phrases and saying to help to remember key points
  • Make sessions exciting/unusual, make more memorable
  • Don't move on to quickly, reinforce key aspects of the movement action