Stimulus and Response:  Instinctive Movement Stimulus-Response (S-R) Compatibility is a scientific finding defined as the ‘naturalness of the connection between the stimulus and the associated response’.  It refers to how the Reaction Time for skill performance is faster the more compatible the Stimulus-Response pairs. For example, the S-R Compatibility for turning a car steering wheel to
Dennis Bryant died in November 2013 at the age of 90 after fellow Alzheimers patient, Michael Hall, went into his room in Westcott House Nursing Home in Dorking and punched him several times in his bed. The attacker, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in June 2013, was admitted to East Surrey Hospital with a police escort that August after
Conflict Resolution Proxemics Be Alert and Decisive, Respond don’t React using conflict resolution proxemics. Conflict Resolution proxemics is the art and practice of carefully choosing the safest position, distance, body language and gestures which give us the best chance of resolving conflict safely and successfully.  By presenting appropriate non-verbal communication we influence the mood and tone
As physical skills trainers, is there something we can learn from Robert Bjork?    Much training in physical intervention skills focusses on a linear learning process which starts with ‘the basics’ and progresses along through ‘intermediate’ skill performance until full competency is reached. For example in a Breakaway training package studied by one researcher,
I read with interest this appalling (but familiar) story about a female security guard being stabbed with a syringe in a Sainsbury’s in Kent. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/security-guard-stabbed-in-sainsburys-59658/ It seems that the security guard confronted the drug-taking subject as he attempted to steal a bottle of whiskey from the supermarket shelves and make off with it outside the
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