Recognition
What Recognition means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Recognition
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Reference: AQA
The final stage of the perceptual process, occurring when a stimulus is successfully identified and understood after being detected and compared to past experiences stored in long-term memory.
The identification of the stimulus, allowing the performer to understand what is happening and make an appropriate decision.
Topics that use Recognition
- Efficiency of information processing to include: (AQA A-Level)
- General information processing model, to include: (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Decision making
- Extrinsic feedback
- Feedback
- Information processing
- Input
- Intrinsic feedback
- Knowledge of results
- Output
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