Information processing
AS Level PE 8386 · Area 7 of 12

Information Processing

Information processing and performance, feedback, memory and response time.

4 topics · 29 exam-style questions · 83 marks

How performers take in information, act on it, remember it and react faster.

Information Processing and Performance

Information processing describes what happens between a performer seeing something in the game and making a movement in response. Cambridge wants the stages in order, fro...

7 questions · 20 marks

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Feedback

Feedback is the information a performer receives about their movement, and it is what allows errors to be found and corrected. Cambridge groups it into pairs — intrinsic ...

7 questions · 20 marks

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Memory

Memory is where the information processing model stores what it has taken in. Information passes through the short-term sensory store and short-term memory before it reac...

7 questions · 19 marks

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Response Time

Response time is the total time from the moment a stimulus appears to the moment the movement has been completed. Cambridge splits it into three named times and expects y...

8 questions · 24 marks

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