Intrinsic feedback
What Intrinsic feedback means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Intrinsic feedback
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Reference: AQA
Information the performer detects through proprioception and vision, gathered through their own senses during or after the movement.
Feedback that comes from the performer's own senses, such as feeling the ball leave the hand correctly in a basketball pass.
Information the performer generates from their own senses during and after a movement, without relying on anyone else.
Information received during and after a movement, such as the physical feeling of a tennis racket striking a ball.
Feedback arising from the performer's own senses during and after the action.
Topics that use Intrinsic feedback
- Efficiency of information processing to include: (AQA A-Level)
- General information processing model, to include: (AQA A-Level)
- Use of guidance and feedback (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Extrinsic feedback
- Knowledge of results
- Decision making
- Feedback
- Information overload
- Information processing
- Input
- Output
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