1.	Outline Whiting’s model of information processing and explain how the perceptual mechanism can affect the performance of physical activities.
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2.	6 marks 
	Outline of Whiting’s model

	Sub max 3 
	Award points 1-11 whether on model or list or combination of both – Understanding of correct order needed 
Accept Sub max 3 
1.	Environment 
2.	Input data or display 
3.	Sense or sensory organs / receptors / receptor systems 
4.	Body boundary 
5.	Central mechanism 
6.	Perceptual mechanism(s) 
7.	Translatory mechanism(s) 
8.	Effector mechanisms 
9.	Muscular system.
10.	Output / output data / response 
11.	Feedback
Do not accept Sensory systems 
Do not accept 
Pt 6 if given in answer to 2nd part of question – only give as part of Whiting’s model 
Explanation of how perceptual mechanism can affect performance 

12.	good perception enhances performance / poor perception limits performance 
	Good perception enhances performance because performer able to (accept opposites for bad perception throughout): 
13.	make sense of or judge or interpret information
Accept understand what they need to do 
Detect, Compare and Recognise or DCR
Do not accept process information
14.	selectively attend / concentrate / focus on relevant information / select or filter information / ignore irrelevant information / detect appropriate stimuli 
15.	see the same thing (as others) but in a different way / make individual or different meaning from same stimuli/perform differently because of different perceptions / be more creative (than others) 
16.	code information 
17.	react more quickly
Accept opposite 
18.	use memory – the more experiences they have the more information they can draw on 
19.	use motor programmes (from LTM) / recognise appropriate movement patterns 
20.	uses schema to refine or inform processing (to make performance effective) 
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