1. 2.1 Input and Selective Attention
What is input data?
What is selective attention?
What does a model of information processing look like?

2. Information Processing
We don’t simply do skills, we make decisions according to changing environments
We need to choose...
Which skill to perform
When to perform the skill
What speed to perform the skill at
Simple Model of Information processing
Input
Decision Making
Output

3. Input (Display and sense organs)
Display is the sporting environment where all the information is gathered from
Includes both relevant and irrelevant information
At a Wimbledon tennis match...
Essential information includes position of opponent, speed of ball and trajectory of ball
Peripheral information includes crowd and the umpire
Information is collected from the display using our sense organs
Vision- Tracking the flight of a ball
Hearing- Hearing the call of a team mate
Touch- Weighting a pass to a team mate
Kinaesthetic- knowing if action feels correct
Balance- Stability before a move is made

4. Perception Selective attention
It is impossible to pay attention to all of the information which you will receive
Therefore some sorting out is necessary to avoid confusion
In the Perceptual mechanisms the information picked up is filtered by Selective attention
Relevant information is filtered away from the irrelevant
Player is then left with only important information to concentrate on.
Relevant information is coded- all subsequent decisions are made on this information alone
Known as the DCR process...
DCR- Detection, comparison and recognition process
Detection- registering the stimulus by the sense organ
Comparison- referring stimulus to the memory store to be compared against stored stimuli
Recognition- Finding the corresponding stimuli in the memory
Decision can then be made and carried out accordingly...

5. Model of information processing
Input
Stimulus Response Response
Identification Selection Programming
Output
Decision Making