human performance ( Chapter 2 > required skills and knowledge )

The human skeleton provides

1. Structure strength

2. Blood cells ( grown in bone marrow )

3. Cavities

What does the central nervous system (CNS) comprise of

1. Brain

2. Spine

Peripheral nervous system contains

1. Somatic

2. Autonomic

What is autonomic nervous system

Controls unconscious bodily functions e.g breathing, digestion and excretion

What is the autonomic nervous system

Senses the body movement and external stimuli and conscious functions

Synapse

The functional connection between neurones

Five human senses

1. Eyesight

2. Hearing

3. Taste

4. Touch

5. Smell

Do your senses naturally adapt

They adapt to depletion or loss of that sense

What is the name for vision from one eye

Monocular vision

What happens to the sensitivity if the threshold is raised

Less sensitive

What happens to the sensitivity if the threshold lowered

More sensitive

How can we feel our environment

1. Skin

2. Pressure

3. Temperature

4. Body position

5. Pain

6. Movement

Sensory adaptation

Is decrease in physiological response as a result of a repeated stimulus or motion

Sensory adaptation example

Flying a curve with a constant turn rate that lasts for more than 30 seconds

Habituation

A decrease in psychological and behavioural response as a result to be repeated exposure to a stimuli

Habituation example

Getting so used to something you become unaware of it

What lasts longer sensory habituation or adaptations

Habituations, this is because it is not dependent upon short term physiological changes

If you become habituated to a stimulus you may …

No longer notice it