KP161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Motor Skill, Cocktail Party
28 Mar 2016
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Individuals can only pay attention/process limiter number of activities at any time: limited attentional capacity. When limit exceeded, competition for resources occurs resulting in: speed reduction (all movements and thinking process is reduced, reduced in quality of performance, disregard for one activity. See figure 2. 7 (can"t watch the tv, read a magazine and run on the treadmill at the same time. One activity is going to suffer, if not all three) Physical and cognitive tasks can occur at the same time, but using two cognitive tasks or physical tasks the activities interfere with each other. The ability to attend to meaningful information that will increase performance success. Selectively attending to/concentrating on specific environmental information. Don"t assume learners will be able to disregard irrelevant information. Avoid causing learner to shift attentional focus in the wrong direction (ex. don"t think about falling) However, disrupting attentional focus may help to distract an opponent (noise and movement distracts people)
