The development of decision making skill in sport : an ecological dynamics perspective
By Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids, Jia Yi Chow, Pedro Passos. 2009
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In this chapter we introduce a theoretical framework for studying decision making in sport: the ecological dynamics approach, which we integrate with key ideas from the literature on learning complex motor skills. Our analysis will include insights from Berstein (1967) on the coordination of degrees of freedom and Newell's (1985) model of motor learning. We particularly focus on the role of perceptual degrees of freedom advocated in an ecological approach to learning. In introducing this framework to readers we contrast this perspective with more traditional models of decision-making. Finally, we propose some implications to the training of decision-making skill in sport.
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- Why the Constraints-Led Approach is not Teaching Games for Understanding: a clarification (2016, background): “…achieving the same performance outcome and many ways to enhance understanding (including acquiring knowledge of a performance environment – vs. knowledge about a performance environment), see Araújo et al. (2009b) for an application to sport of this crucial distinction proposed by Gibson (1966).”
- Improving ‘at-action’ decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach (2014, background): “The third major body of research on decision-making, the ecological approach, has grown from dissatisfaction with the limitations of the information-processing perspective in both methodology and epistemology (Araujo et al., 2006, 2009; Passos et al., 2008).”