01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Motor Skill, Automaticity, Visual Search
4 Jan 2018
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Concept: preparation for and performance of motor skills are influenced by our limited capacity to select and attend to information. When related to the performance of skills, particular reference to the limitations associated with those characteristics on. Detection of relevant information in the performance environment. When we simultaneously perform multiple tasks (driving a car, listening to music, talking with passenger) we sometimes. Experience no difficulties in performing all tasks but. Cannot do all the tasks as well as we would like. Answer related to attention as a performance limiting factor. Difficulty doing multiple tasks simultaneously because of limitation due to inability to serially process multiple stimuli (fig. Difficulty doing multiple tasks simultaneously because of limitation due to availability of resources needed to carry out tasks. Simultaneous successful performance of multiple tasks can occur when capacity limits not exceeded. Propose one central source of attention resources for which all activities requiring attention compete.
