Do Martial Artists Make Decisions Faster? A Study Comparing Martial Arts Practitioners to Non-Practitioners on a CRT Task.
(2020) PSPR14 20192Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Split-second decision-making is of vital importance to many aspects of human existence, from life-and-death scenarios to sports. Studies have shown expert advantage in a given field on choice reaction time tasks within the area of expertise. Still, no conclusive studies on differences in this skill between athletes and non- athletes have been made on CRT tasks for general stimuli. The aim of this study was to establish if there are differences between martial arts practitioners and non- practitioners on a choice reaction time task to generic stimuli not related to expert knowledge. The results showed no significant advantage to martial artists regarding speed and an advantage to non-practitioners on accuracy. However, it was argued that... (More)
- Split-second decision-making is of vital importance to many aspects of human existence, from life-and-death scenarios to sports. Studies have shown expert advantage in a given field on choice reaction time tasks within the area of expertise. Still, no conclusive studies on differences in this skill between athletes and non- athletes have been made on CRT tasks for general stimuli. The aim of this study was to establish if there are differences between martial arts practitioners and non- practitioners on a choice reaction time task to generic stimuli not related to expert knowledge. The results showed no significant advantage to martial artists regarding speed and an advantage to non-practitioners on accuracy. However, it was argued that the differences could either be a result of speed-accuracy trade-off or because of methodological fallacies in the study. Therefore, the study suggests that future research could achieve significantly different results by improving upon the methodology of this study. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Snabba beslut är centralt för många aspekter av människans existens, från sport till frågor om liv och död. Forskning har visat att experter har ett övertag gällande choice reaction time-uppgifter som är relaterade till deras expertområde. Trots detta har inga studier slutgiltigt kunnat konkludera huruvida en skillnad finns mellan atleter och icke-atleter på en CRT-uppgift för generella stimuli. Syftet med denna studie var att etablera om det finns skillnader mellan kampsportsutövare och icke-utövare på en choice reaction time-uppgift för generella stimuli, oberoende av deras expertkunskaper. Resultaten visade inga signifikanta fördelar gällande hastighet för kampsportsgruppen, men däremot ett signifikant resultat till fördel för icke-... (More)
- Snabba beslut är centralt för många aspekter av människans existens, från sport till frågor om liv och död. Forskning har visat att experter har ett övertag gällande choice reaction time-uppgifter som är relaterade till deras expertområde. Trots detta har inga studier slutgiltigt kunnat konkludera huruvida en skillnad finns mellan atleter och icke-atleter på en CRT-uppgift för generella stimuli. Syftet med denna studie var att etablera om det finns skillnader mellan kampsportsutövare och icke-utövare på en choice reaction time-uppgift för generella stimuli, oberoende av deras expertkunskaper. Resultaten visade inga signifikanta fördelar gällande hastighet för kampsportsgruppen, men däremot ett signifikant resultat till fördel för icke- utövargruppen på träffsäkerhet. Detta kan antingen vara en fråga om ”speed-accuracy trade-off” eller till följd av metodologiska brister i studien. Således föreslår studien att framtida forskning kan få tydligare resultat genom att förbättra metodologin som använts i studien, snarare än att avfärda hypoteserna. (Less)
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- author
- Jerklöv, Jonathan LU and Norman, Arvid LU
- supervisor
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- Mats Dahl LU
- organization
- course
- PSPR14 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- martial arts, decision-making, stroop, choice reaction time, reaction time, exercise
- language
- English
- id
- 9001302
- date added to LUP
- 2020-01-16 09:52:48
- date last changed
- 2020-01-16 09:52:48
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abstract = {{Split-second decision-making is of vital importance to many aspects of human existence, from life-and-death scenarios to sports. Studies have shown expert advantage in a given field on choice reaction time tasks within the area of expertise. Still, no conclusive studies on differences in this skill between athletes and non- athletes have been made on CRT tasks for general stimuli. The aim of this study was to establish if there are differences between martial arts practitioners and non- practitioners on a choice reaction time task to generic stimuli not related to expert knowledge. The results showed no significant advantage to martial artists regarding speed and an advantage to non-practitioners on accuracy. However, it was argued that the differences could either be a result of speed-accuracy trade-off or because of methodological fallacies in the study. Therefore, the study suggests that future research could achieve significantly different results by improving upon the methodology of this study.}},
author = {{Jerklöv, Jonathan and Norman, Arvid}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Do Martial Artists Make Decisions Faster? A Study Comparing Martial Arts Practitioners to Non-Practitioners on a CRT Task.}},
year = {{2020}},
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