Kinesiology 1080A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Heath Miller

Document Summary

Janet looked at this: baseball, field hockey, basketball, soccer, european sports, etc. So they get picked for comp teams and summer teams where the best coaching is. They get these opportunities that will make them better year after year so they eventually get way ahead of everyone else. Factors influencing response selection: number of stimulus response (sr) alternatives. Increasing the number of alternatives relevant to a response increases the time required to process and select appropriate responses: blue light = index finger. Yellow light = right finger: we know that as you increase the number of sr alternatives, you get an increase in reaction time. It has everything to do with the stimulus selection stage. The length of response selection increases: there"s a law that describes this relationship, hick"s law of hyman"s law, results: every time you double the number of alternatives you get approximately 150ms. Task: choice reaction time task increase of reaction time.