Motor Skills Learning Exam 2

Front 1

Factors influencing reaction time and decision making

Back 1

1. number of stimulus response alternatives
2. stimulus-response compatibility
3. practice

Front 2

Hicks Law

Back 2

describes the stable relationship that exists between the number of stimulus response alternatives and choice reaction time

Front 3

stimulus-response compatibility

Back 3

the degree to which the relationship between a stimulus and the required response is "natural"- compatible

Front 4

practice

Back 4

-increase amount of practice, faster choice reaction time
-nature of practice- increase practice with the same stimulus response combo, faster choice reaction time
-S=f(P,A)quicker choice reaction time= more skilles

Front 5

anticipation

Back 5

-highly skilled performer
-good enough to predict what will happen in the environment
-perform information processing activities in advance of the presented stimulus

Front 6

types of anticipation

Back 6

spatial (or event)anticipation and temporal anticipation

Front 7

spatial anticipation

Back 7

what is going to happen

Front 8

temporal anticipation

Back 8

when is it going to happen

Front 9

benefits of anticipation

Back 9

if correct, a performer can initiate the already prepared movement with no reaction time delay

Front 10

attention

Back 10

3 different aspects:
1. selective
2. limited capacity
3. effort

Front 11

selective aspect of attention

Back 11

appears as thought we can focus on some aspects of our environment than others

Front 12

limited capacity aspect of attention

Back 12

fixed amount of mental energy (construct) example: driving car at 12 vs. 22, brain has a limited amount of mental sources to do work

Front 13

selectivity-

Back 13

capability to focus on a subset of our environment

Front 14

sequential/serial processing

Back 14

brain must do things one at a time

Front 15

parallel processing

Back 15

occurring at the same point in time

Front 16

sequential/serial

Back 16

use of all limited capacity attention

Front 17

parallel processing

Back 17

tasks share capacity

Front 18

selective attention

Back 18

Stroop task: color of ink vs. what word says; scientists have considered BLUE (in red ink) a failure of selective attention

Front 19

conflict situation regarding Stroop task

Back 19

What is occurring that helps us understand why the BLUE in red ink is difficult? reading of letters is obligatory, you have to do it. You have no choice. You can't see just letters, you read them

Front 20

selective attention

Back 20

means learning how to respond selectively

Front 21

controlled processing

Back 21

serial and attention demanding; required limited capacity attention

Front 22

automatic processing

Back 22

fast, parallel, does not demand much attention if any at all

Front 23

number of elements vs. reaction time

Back 23

the number of elements you are searching through has no effect on reaction time. As number of elements increases reaction time stays the same. Graphically, it is a horizontal line

Front 24

consistent mapping

Back 24

distractors are always distracting and targets are always targets

Front 25

varied mapping

Back 25

when reaction time between elements is varied over trials, you need to use sequential/serial attention which is demanding and slow

Front 26

double stimulation

Back 26

rapid, sequential stimulation. In the lab, do a series of trials, when the light comes on, you press a button