Judgment And Decision-making In Sports

JUDGMENT AND DECISION-MAKING IN SPORTS Introduction  Sports psychology encompasses various aspects like imagery, goal-setting,motivation, and team cohesion.  Often overlooked is the role of judgment and decision-making in sports.  Sporting activities are influenced by judgments and decisions across variouscontexts, such as coaching, refereeing, and player actions.  Theories of judgment and decision-making offer insights into these processesand their biases. 5.2 Understanding Judgments Definition of Judging  Judging involves assigning values to judgment objects on a judgment dimension.  Differentiate between explicit judgments and the psychological process ofassigning values.  Judgment objects and dimensions can vary widely, including people, objects,performances, statements, weather, ideas, or future developments.  Judgment dimensions can be evaluative or nonevaluative, influencing thecontext-dependent nature of judgments.  Probability judgments and predictive judgments are subsets of judgment types. 5.2.1.1 Brunswik's Lens Model  Brunswik's lens model provides insights into human judgment.  Structuring a judgment or decision-making environment.  The lens model assumes that judgments are made based on cues (proximalvariables) that indirectly represent a criterion (distal variable).  Correlations between cues and criteria are probabilistic, not deterministic.  Concepts of ecological validities (cue-criterion correlations) and cue usagecoefficients influence judgment quality.  Achievement in judgment refers to the accuracy with which a judgment maps thecriterion.

 Cue validity and cue usage contribute to the accuracy of judgments. Application in Sports  The lens model can be applied to understand judgment situations in sports, suchas coaching decisions and referee judgments.  Consideration of both environmental structures and cognitive processes isessential in analyzing judgment situations.