Investigating the Effect of Selective Attention on the Performance of a Motor Skill
Selective attention if the process whereby people concentrate on one
stimulus or one cue to the exclusion of others.
A motor skill is when the voluntary movement is predominant and
perception plays a less significant role, therefore is physical
action.
A perceptual motor skill combines perception and movement components.
Information is received by the senses analysed and made meaningful. A
cognitive motor skill is the ability to solve problems by thinking,
therefore the main component if intellectual/ mental; therefore we are
able to acquire knowledge. In sport motor, cognitive and perceptual
skills are all incorporated and therefore often referred to as a motor
skill.
Consequently selective attention and motor skills are related as an
essential aspect of the process of producing a motor response is the
selection of information from the environment on which the response
can be based. In many motor skills such as catching, visual selective
attention is critical for a successful performance; our ability to
attend to only a specific portion of information and not be distracted
from the irrelevant information. Certain characteristics of stimuli,
for instance the orange ball attracts attention because they receive
our involuntary attention. This is because the ball is visual and
meaningful, however because the catcher is expecting the orange ball
it results in an increased probability of it being caught, they have
anticipated it. Additionally it has been proved that because of this
the catcher will attend to the cues that are most meaningful to them.
Method:
Experiment A: 1 person stands approximately 4m away from another 5
people who are in a line. The 5 people all have a ball; all the balls
are yellow bar one, which is orange. The person with the orange ball
is randomly selected each time. The aim is for the person stood 4m in
front of them to catch the orange ball. All the balls should be thrown
at the same time, speed and direction.
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