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Unit 4: Enhancing Performance and Maintaining Participation
Quick questions on Skill under pressure and decision making: WACE Year 12 Physical Education Studies Unit 4
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What is information processing?Show answer
Information processing models describe performance as a flow from input to output. A simple model has three stages. Input (stimulus identification) is the gathering of information from the display through the senses, with selective attention filtering the relevant cues from the irrelevant. The decision-making stage (response selection) chooses the correct response by comparing the situation against the memory of past experiences.
What is performing under pressure?Show answer
Pressure raises arousal and anxiety, which narrows attention. Moderate arousal can sharpen selective attention onto the relevant cues, but excessive arousal can cause attention to narrow too far (missing important cues) or, with high anxiety, to jump distractingly between cues. Highly learned (autonomous) skills are more robust under pressure because they need little conscious attention, which is why over-thinking a well-learned skill ("paralysis by analysis") can disrupt it.
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