Information Processing and Memory | Edexcel A-Level Physical Education (9PE0)
Information Processing and Memory
- 76 questions
- 5 subtopics
- Component 2: psychological and social principles of physical education
- Component 2
Information Processing and Memory is examined in Component 2, Psychological and social principles of physical education.
It covers Welford and Whiting's information processing models, the sensory store and short-term memory, long-term memory and the multi-store model, reaction time, Hick's law and the psychological refractory period and Schmidt's schema theory.
Sample questions from Information Processing and Memory
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Welford and Whiting's information processing models
Describe the detection phase of perception.
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Detection is noticing that a stimulus is present. Selective attention decides which stimuli are detected. -
Welford and Whiting's information processing models
What happens at the response selection stage?
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The performer decides which action to take, drawing on experience stored in long-term memory. A midfielder chooses between a pass and a shot. -
The sensory store and short-term memory
Why is the brief duration of the sensory store useful?
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The brief duration stops the system filling with irrelevant information. Only attended information is kept for processing. -
The sensory store and short-term memory
What is chunking?
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Chunking is grouping separate pieces of information into one larger unit. Short-term memory can then hold more information. -
Long-term memory and the multi-store model
What is recall?
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Recall is retrieving stored information from long-term memory without a prompt. A performer recalls a motor programme to produce a skill. -
Long-term memory and the multi-store model
Give three ways a coach can help a skill enter long-term memory.
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Repeated practice rehearses the skill. Association with a skill already known makes it meaningful. Praise reinforces each correct attempt. -
Reaction time, Hick's law and the psychological refractory period
Describe the shape of a graph of choice reaction time against the number of choices.
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Choice reaction time rises steeply from one choice to two. The curve then flattens as more choices are added. -
Reaction time, Hick's law and the psychological refractory period
What is the psychological refractory period?
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The psychological refractory period is the delay when a second stimulus arrives before the first has been processed. The response to the second stimulus is slowed.
The 5 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Welford and Whiting's information processing models | The display, sensory input and stimulus identification, the detection, comparison and recognition phases of perception, selective attention, response selection and programming, memory in Welford's model, and Whiting's three mechanisms. | 16 |
| The sensory store and short-term memory | The short-term sensory store's capacity, duration and encoding, what leaves it, short-term memory's capacity, duration and encoding, chunking with a sporting example, experts and beginners, coaching instructions and displacement. | 15 |
| Long-term memory and the multi-store model | The three stores of the multi-store model, long-term memory's capacity, duration and encoding, recall, rehearsal and retrieval, overlearned skills, meaningful information, a criticism of the model and the rugby fly-half reading a defence. | 14 |
| Reaction time, Hick's law and the psychological refractory period | Reaction and response time, simple and choice reaction time, Hick's law and its graph, worked Hick's law, penalty save and ruler drop figures, measuring reactions and sprint starts, and the psychological refractory period in a rugby dummy. | 16 |
| Schmidt's schema theory | Schemas and Schmidt's 1975 theory, the recall and recognition schemas, initial conditions, response specifications, sensory consequences and movement outcomes, a basketball pass under pressure, variable practice and feedback. | 15 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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