What is psychomotor behaviour?

Psychomotor behaviour - behaviour about the origin of physical movement that is associated with mental activity.

Input --> process --> output (just like a computer)

• Input = stimuli
• Process = decision-making process
• Output = behaviour

Differences:

• Individual differences
• Emotions and feelings
• Perform under pressure
• Independent thought
• Personality
• Can adapt a computer on how it works, but for a human, it would be very difficult

Perception - processing stimuli from the self or environment.

Cognition - the mental process by which external or internal input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used (Neisser, 1967). It involves a variety of functions such as attention, memory processing, decision-making, reasoning, problem-solving, imaging, planning and executing actions.

Motor behaviour - the planning and execution of actions.

Cristiano Ronaldo:

• Could pick up advanced stimuli
• Reaction time was quicker
• More confident
• Less cognition needed
• Optimal level of arousal

Novice performer:

• Less experienced
• Reaction time was slower
• Less confident
• Less knowledge
• Less aroused to perform
• Anxious

4 specialised regions:

• Frontal lobe
• Parietal lobe
• Occipital lobe
• Temporal lobe

CNS - neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

4 types of cell:

• Unipolar
• Bipolar
• Pseudounipolar
• Multipolar

Function: gather signals; process them; depending on the result of processing; send impulse to next neuron(s).