We are coming off a loss in East St. Louis where after my first time out--I explained the definition of perception-and how it plays a major role in how we play on the road.
1. This reading can be summarized into two sections, the visual and the audio. Both have to deal with how we perceive objects,places, people, and events. How ever each one has it's own characteristics and triggers different cognitive responses. No one response will be alike between people because it is based on previous knowledge and experiences.
2. I am taking this class and applying it to my coaching. So what this chapter adds to the previous (the introduction) is still unclear because I took chapter one for what it was, an intro. One thing that did correlate was the multi-media chart. Reading the chart helped me get a better grasp of the different skill sets (visual and audio recognition).
3. I am still not quite sure I fully get the skill set question on the discussion questions. I understand what they are saying, but when I try and work it out to an applicable situation I find it hard. Using the chart, which was after the skill set question helped, but its still a little murky for me.
4. I explained in the discussion questions (face recognition) and personalization are two very huge things in coaching. To make sure that there is optimal attention for learning face recognition is required. In addition to that the use of personalization (though in the reading it was termed for multi-media use) I believe that this is what engages the student or player to become receptive to what it is I am trying to teach. Tonight, I purposely didn't give my normal smiling feel good pep talk to see if there was let down in performance based on the lack of personalization--and there was!
5. Yes, I believe that the offer makes good points about visualization. Do I believe them? Yes, I do. One example is the inattentional blindess. The theory states that when we pay attention to some scene and object may appear and we not notice it. Tonight with 11 seconds to go, we were passing the ball around running out the clock when one player got it and just threw it because that was had been happening, what she didn't notice that this time an opposing player jump into the scene and my player threw the ball right to her. That was proof enough for me!!!
6. It shows that when we become accustomed to something in some formation or style, we can overload our top down processes and not notice that the formation or style has changed. This happens all the time in the sports world. It just helps prove that all though the brain is a high functioning organ, it can become a victim of prediction also.
7.In my girls, you see this anytime that they get into a stressful situation. A couple of negative things may have changed momentum, it may have gotten more physical, or even something simple like not listening. The author states our perceptions are based on knowledge and experience- my girls knowledge is limited and their experience is formed around years and years of losing. This makes it hard for the to understand the concept of and eventually winning games.
8. Not quite sure what they are asking-- I would say to avoid this problem in visual object recognition one would have to train the brain and the eye. You would have to understand how you think and that you would have to be aware of the fact that other objects may appear and it is possible you don't always recognize them. This only comes from time and experience....so it seems there is no quick fix to this.
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This comment nor any future comments should be taken in a negative manner. I can relate to your comments because I have a background with your girls. I believe you have done some amazing techniques with them and they have even told me they have finally come together as a team (and now they are winning!). In commenting to answer #7, stress truly seems to change our perception. It would be interesting to see how it actually affects vision as well. The chapter also discussed background knowledge and how it can play a part in applying those "features" to context. It took a coach to figure out that they learned best with visuals. It's not that they were "lacking" background knowledge because they were taught different techniques last year that built their background knowledge of basketball (my husband was a coach at Blackburn and brought some different techniques to the playing field). Sometimes I believe we have background knowledge to build on but if it is not used then it is lost. I just think that happened with your girls. They perceived their losing and resorted back to their "old" techniques. Stress is in basketball and does change their perception. There are so many components to a game that it is hard to train each one what to do in each stressful situation depending on what the other team is doing at that time and how the individual with the ball responds to that. Inattentative blindness could be counteracted with training on what to do in that situation. But, I'm not a coach and I know nothing about basketball. I just have a heart for your girls and am glad to see them winning! Keep up the good work! Tell the girls Mrs. Binning (Miss Pisarek) said hi and keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteFrom another coaches perspective, you're not alone. In nine years of coaching I've figured out that you can have the greatest previous coaches in the world and you will still have to re-teach the old. I guess the only thing you can hope is that they've retained enough of what was taught to build off of.
ReplyDeleteI liked your comments on face recognition especially in the coaching arena. When players don't see your face they usually don't get the total message being sent. We have a rule that all players are looking directly at coach when he's speaking (not so much for respect but for them to get the total picture). I know in my circumstances (football), my players get much more of what I'm saying by how I physically say it.