REACTION TIME

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REACTION TIME
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Reaction time

• Identification of stimuli
• Initiation of response
• ID Stimuli Start Response
• What is happening between these two events?

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Movement Time

• Initiation of response
• Completion of response
• Start of response Completion of Response
• REACTION TIME MOVEMENT TIME RESPONSE TIME

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• Reaction time game

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• Traffic lights

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Improving Reaction Time

• Be 21
• Be male
• Be fresh
• Keep the stimuli intense
• Spot the signals
• Be an extrovert
• Be experienced
• Be aroused
• Be warm
• Be short

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Simple / Choice reaction time

• The number of possible stimuli / responses
• Hicks Law
• RT
• STIMULUS RESPONSE
  ALTERNATIVES

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Psychological Refractory Period

• Why can we sell dummies?

STIMULUS ONE
REACTION ONE
REACTION TWO
STIMULUS TWO
PRP
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• Matt Dawson makes dummy of Springboks

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The Single Channel Hypothesis
Input
Input
Central Processing
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Implications for performance

• Disguise shots / actions
• Spot cues / warning signals
• Get experience learn to recognise
• Anticipate
• Mental rehearsal

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Anticipation

• Temporal anticipation
• Predicting when something will happen
• Spatial anticipation
• Predicting what will happen