KP361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Chronometry, Kinematics, Escalator
5 Jan 2016
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Gentile"s two-dimensional taxonomy *most important concept in the chapter. Environmental context*: regulatory conditions features of the environment to which movements must conform. Object, surfaces and other people: gentile would say that regulatory conditions are basically parts of the environment that deal with your task, features of the environment that could be changed or remain stationary. Intertrial variability: these are suppose to be features of the environment that have no direct effect or an indirect effect on your ability to move, variations in the regulatory conditions from one trial to the next. Ex: if we continued to rehearse shots from the free throw line, one after another in the exact same spot, we have no intertrial variability. If we say every shot you take you move to a different spot on the key, then you have high intertrial variability. Ex: a drinking cup could vary in size, shape, weight, texture, orientation, and position relative to the performer.
