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From playing multiple sports, one thing that I have noticed is that many skills and techniques can be transferred from one sport to another, especially when playing man-on-man defense. The sports that this is relevant for me are soccer, basketball, and ultimate frisbee. When thinking about how to play defense on an opponent, you most likely think about where you would position your arms, your feet, and your stance. This holds true for most sports with a defense and an offense. This idea follows that of the Transfer Appropriate Processing Theory, which proposes that the degree of similarity between the cognitive processes required by the two skills or two performance situations will influence the degree of transfer. Due to man-on-man defense being quite similar in all of these sports, we are able to see positive transfer occurring. The presence of positive transfer is beneficial to every one of these sports because you could be practicing your defense at soccer practice and then you could see an improvement at a basketball practice.

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Visual search is defined as the process of directing your visual attention to locate relevant cues in the environment. This becomes very relevant when thinking about soccer, with the ball, the opponents, and the field, in general. Experts at the sport of soccer have developed a specific type of vision for this activity. They are able to see the field in front of them, keep control of the ball, and predict a player's upcoming movement. As a defender in this sport for almost 13 years, it becomes important to pick out an opponent's run and to determine where they are trying to move next. This helps you stay on your toes and hopefully intersect or turnover the ball to your own team. A study was performed on Cristiano Ronaldo that tracked his eye movement while playing soccer. What the authors were interested in was where Ronaldo was actually focusing his vision during a game, compared to where a novice or beginners focuses their vision during this sport. What they found was that Ronaldo is able to asses and control the movements of the ball, know where his defender is, and have a good view of the entire field. A novice, however, mainly focuses on the ball, which makes it harder to move around as fast. Soccer has allowed me to learn how to use visual search in order to predict others’ movements and it has also helped me in other sports besides soccer.

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Contextual interference can be used in everyday life when looking at how a student studies for an exam. If someone is studying for a final they may glance at their notes multiple times the days leading up to the exam, this causes interference with what is going on between these glances at the notes and causes you to reuse your memory. An example of how you could block practice for an exam would be re-reading a study guide that you have made. This can be beneficial in that you start to memorize the information and are able to recall what is coming next but may not always be beneficial when it comes down to the exam because you can be thrown the information in a different order. An example of how you can use random practice to study for finals is you could create flash cards on your material and then shuffle them up every time that you practice and you would quiz yourself but each time you did it, it would come in a different order. Although I usually find myself block practice studying for an exam, I think that the most beneficial way to study is by doing it more randomly. This helps you become more familiar with the material in a random pattern, so when you get to the exam you don’t expect a specific pattern.

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Almost the entire time that I was a competitive cheerleader I had back pain and other problems in my back. Because of this, I chose to go to physical therapy in hopes that it would help strengthen my back and not affect me in the future. One thing that I noticed while attending physical therapy was the way the therapist chose to distribute the practice, and also how much practice or exercises she made me do. Something that I believe was beneficial to my times at therapy was the distributed practice schedule that my therapist had me on. We would do many exercises together in one meeting, and then I would wait a couple days to a week in order to have another appointment. This way, I could recover from the previous meeting and be all ready for the next one. Another thing that I notices was how much she made me do in one meeting. She wouldn't make me over do it, and she would generally pick a location on my back to work on for that day and do exercises that have to do with that spot. Both the distribution and the amount of practice that the therapist had me doing had a positive effect on my back, and I now feel like I can take these concepts and apply them to other parts of my life.

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Speed and accuracy are two things that are important to many sports and action made. For instance, I used to do alpine skiing and gymnastics and I still play soccer. All of these sports and more require both speed and accuracy to be successful.
When playing soccer, to have a good pass to a teammate, you must use a good amount of speed and you also must have good aim in order for the ball to get to them and not to be turned over. Also, shooting a penalty kick in soccer, both your accuracy and speed must be on point in order for the goalie not to block the ball from going into the goal. Although many sports and skills have to do with both speed and accuracy, there are some skills that fall under the speed-accuracy tradeoff. The skills under this theory include typing, other aiming movements, and then Fitts' Law (the tapping test that we performed earlier in the course). Speed and accuracy are two very important concepts, and they are relevant to almost every sport there is, in one way or another.

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When a student sits in a lecture, it can be hard for them to pick up every piece of information that is presented to them. By using the strategies that enhance consolidation, a professor could do everything on their part to prevent this from happening. Primacy-recency is a strategy where the best thing is to present hard or new information at the beginning or at the end. The Von Restorft effect is what is used when a professor says "highlight this information" or "this will be on the exam" during the middle of class and immediately each student pulls out a highlighter or stars the information. Both of these techniques can be useful to students, including me, because then the student knows what to pay attention to. Also, in regards to the primacy-recency effect, students are more likely to listen at the beginning of class when the professor makes announcements and at the end of class when it is almost over. If the instructor reveals important information during that time, then the student is more likely to listen and comprehend what they said.

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In basketball, coaches have you practice free throws numerous times in practices, scrimmages, and games, in hopes that it becomes a natural motion for you. When I played basketball as a child, my coaches always stressed the importance of free throws and that they were just free points if you were able to make them. With practice, the action of a free throw gets logged into your memory in a procedural form and shooting a free throw becomes second nature. However, when it comes down to being in front of a large crowd of screaming fans, several distractions and a lot more pressure, one's form can be affected during a big game and there can be detrimental consequences. An example of choking under pressure is shown with this University of Kansas basketball player in a game against Texas. When he starts to think about his free throw up at the line, he is using his declarative memory which is not where the act of shooting a free throw was stored and therefore, he cannot execute the skill as he previously practiced. Because of this, it results in him overthinking the free throw and him choking under pressure in front of a large crowd.

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The ugliest missed free throw you've ever seen

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http://ClickHereToGo.com/freegames - Finally, You Can Get Paid To Play Games, Search The Web & Take Surveys. Create Your Free Account Now! For those who couldn't sit through the final four minutes of the Kansas-Texas game on Monday night, it did deliver at least one memorable moment: A missed free throw for the ages.

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Anticipation is the action of expecting or predicting something, for instance, in a swim race or a track and field race. Anticipation usually occurs when performers are trying to cope with long reaction time delays, therefore, they will anticipate a start time or the sound of the horn in a race. These examples deal with temporal anticipation, when you don't know when something will occur. This is relevant to me in my life because I ran track in high school, and I also was a swimmer for a couple years. This type of anticipation plays an important role in swimming and track races because the fore-period is constantly changing. A long fore-period allows for individuals to anticipate the signal, and can lead to quicker reactions. If the participant is correct, it can give them a large advantage, however, if they are wrong, there are several consequences that could occur, foe example being disqualified from a race.