Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture 1: Kin-Final-Notes
4 Oct 2016
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Individual who listens to stanford football game on the radio - vadley: causes his driving to worsen than it did from listening to classical music. Resource a and resource b (can be speci c to motor processing, cognitive processing, etc. : driving taking up resource a and listening to classical music listening to resource. B exceeds capacity, and thus either task b or task a will deteriorate in performance: had an accident. Pool of cognitive activities, spatial activities, motor activities; each individual element has distinct pools and all can be performed at once as long as no individual element capacity is exceeded. Good construct of the development of attention. Attention is speci c to a speci c task being performed. Have at least 3 pools of attentional resources (spatial, cognitive, motor) Consider attention to be a xed and undifferentiated capacity, but mediated by: arousal and anxiety level, speci c task demands, selectivity.
