What is information processing ?
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Gather
Interpret
Make use of Information
Where do you get this information?
Senses
The effectiveness of your Information processing
system is a vital factor in your ability as an individual
and can have a big impact on the level of your
performance.
Models of Information Processing
• The brain is like a computer it works in stages to arrive at
the answer.
• INPUT – Your senses provide you with information.
• DECISION MAKING – information is gathered.
• OUTPUT – Response is initiated by the performer.
INPUT
DECISION MAKING
OUTPUT
How do we use our senses in
sport?
Activity 1
You have just received a Basketball pass, what
information are you going to take in from your senses?
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The information that comes from the environment of
the performer is known as the display.
Perception
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Perception – How we acquire, interpret, select and
organise the sensory information.
Without this information we would not know how to act.
Two types of environmental information…..
External Environment
2. Internal Environment
External Environment
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Vision - most important in sporting terms.
What information is visual?
Movement of objects e.g. players, ball, your movement,
goal position.
See a ball being passed make an interception.
Auditory (ears) – picking up stimuli we cannot see.
Call from a team mate.
Sound of a ball hitting the bat.
Gun at the start of a sprint race.
Internal Environment
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Proprioceptive information - Awareness of the
body’s limb position in space.
3 Components
Touch – the feel of a racket/grip on floor
Equilibrium – Sense of Balance
Kinaesthesis - internal sensors telling brain about
movement of muscles tendons and joints so we know
our body position without looking.
Stimulus Identification
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What is a stimulus?
Something that provokes a reaction e.g. a ball,
opponent, teammates.
During perception Identification of a stimulus occurs.
Involves 3 elements…. (DCR process)
Detection - The process of registering the stimulus by
the sense organ.
Comparison - Stimuli are compared to previously
stored information in the memory.
Recognition - The act of finding a corresponding
stimulus in the memory.
Stimulus Identification Stage in
summary…..
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Stimulus identification stage – Is the first
stage of Information processing and involves
receiving information through our senses.
Perception – Making sense of the information.
3 elements – DCR process
Selective attention
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During a sporting activity lots of information is
received by our senses.
We cannot detect, compare and recognise all
of it.
We learn to concentrate on the stimuli that are
important this is Selective attention.
Information processing
Explain the following terms / vocabulary
• Display
 Perception
 Stimulus
 Input
 Sense organs
 Visual
 Auditory
 Tactile
 Equilibrium
 Kinaesthetic / kinaesthesis