5.2 How can feedback affect performance?

Intrinsic, extrinsic, knowledge of results, knowledge of performance, positive, negative, terminal, concurrent

Available to a player without outside help. The feel of a movement.

Provided by someone or something else (coach, stopwatch)

Given during the performance

Given at the end of a performance

Concentrates on errors Should be followed with prescriptive feedback Can be detrimental with beginners

What you did well Prescriptive feedback (coach telling student how to improve)

• Post-response information, concerning the nature of the movement • “feel” of a movement • knowledge of sensory consequences (concurrent or terminal)

• post-response information about the outcome of an action • most visual, time or distance

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• Reinforcement of learning • Adaptation of performance • Motivation • Punishment (with regards to learning, the main factor is that the performer improves)

ABOUT SIMPLE INFORMATION PROCESSING

Refers to the environment the performer can see, hear, and feel (display, stimulus)

What the performer did (response)

Performer’s brain and spinal cord

Information processing is the system by which we take information from our surrounding environment, use it to make a decision and then produce a response: input–decision-making–output. All the approaches are only models. Input and output are assessable/observable, but the decision-making process can only be speculation.

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Take in information through our senses and temporarily store all of these inputs prior to sorting them out

The inputs that are seen as relevant to the decision are then stored in the short-term memory

A decision is made by comparing the information in the short-term memory with previous experiences stored in the longterm memory

With reference to the long term memory for the required action the decision is carried out

The action and the results are stored for future reference

The whole process then begins again