Developing selective attention
Learning to focus and concentrate
-make stimulus more intense
Playing with distractions
Realwards and reinforcement
Mental practise
Benefits of slective attention
Improve reaction time
Improves concentration
Increases chance of success
Helps decision making
Prevents information overload
Working and long term memory
WM uses slective attention which sends coded information and memory traces to the LTM
LTM compared it to a past experience
Ways to store information
Mental practise
Association
Focus
Chaining- sequence
Rewards
Chunking
Repetition
Schema
Initial conditions
Information from the environment
Positioning
Schema
Response specification
Information about what to do
Assess the available options
Schema
Sensory consequences
Information about the feel of the movement
Schema
Response outcomes
Motor programs
Knowledge of results
Schema
Coaching strategies
Vary practise
Frequent feedback
Point out positive transfer
Praise and reinforcement
Reaction time
Time taken from the onset of a stimulus to the onset of a response
Movement time
Time taken to complete a task
Response time
Time taken from the onset of the stimulus to the completion of a task
Reaction time + movement time
Anticipation
Prejudging a stimulus
Correct Anticipation improves response time
Temporal Anticipation
When
Spatial Anticipation
Where and what
