Psychological Science ›› 2017, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 329-334.

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The Research of Unconscious Thought in Sport Decision-making

  

  • Received:2016-02-02 Revised:2016-10-26 Online:2017-03-20 Published:2017-03-20

运动决策中的无意识思维研究

苗秀影,迟立忠   

  1. 北京体育大学
  • 通讯作者: 迟立忠

Abstract: Many?studies?have?shown that unconscious thought can improve the effectiveness of decision making than conscious thought. To combine with unconscious thought theory and research paradigms, the present study tries to explore the effect of unconscious thought on decision-making in sport, especially focus on the weight of information available for decisions. Video clips from basketball competitions were edited to produce the decision-making tasks, which were divided into analytical and intuitive decision-making situations. Participants were 81 basketball players from one sport university. Experiment 1 tries to examine the effect of unconscious thought on sport decision under two kinds of information available conditions. The research adopts 2 (mode of thought: conscious vs. unconscious thought) ×2 (type of information: intuitive vs analytical decision-making information) mixed-design. Thirty-six basketball players were equally assigned into two groups: conscious thought group (thinking carefully for 2 minutes) and unconscious thought group (performing 0-back distraction task for 2 minutes). Repeated measurement analysis of variance indicates that the interaction between mode of thought and type of decision information in basketball decision making is significant, F(1, 34) = 13.01, p < .05, η2 = .28. Participants from unconscious thought group performed better (2.33.97) than those from conscious thought group (1.33.84, p < .05) 撕破如同exists in decision-making performance between unconscious thought group (3.06.99) and conscious thought group (3.441.09, p > .05) when analytical decision-making information was available. The results of experiment 1 generally show that the effect of unconscious thought on sport decision exists when intuitive decision-making information is available, but the accuracy of decision-making is nearly at a random level (7*1/3=2.31) and the reason might be that the processing of intuitive decision information is more difficult and has to occupy more cognitive resources so as to restrict the performance in decisions. The previous studies have indicated that the information processing in decision-making is inclined to be holistic and it can be inferred that the holistic processing intention was elicited before participants think unconsciously, the cognitive load would be reduced so as to improve the performance of decision-making. Experiment 2 adopt one factor (processing style: global, local vs control conditions) between-subject design to investigate the influence of processing style on the effect of unconscious thought in decision making. Global Navon task, Local Navon task and 0-back task were designed as distraction tasks and the basketball decision-making performance under intuitive information condition was examined. Fifty-five participants were assigned into three groups. The results from one factor analysis of variance indicate that the main effect of the processing style is significant, F(2, 44) = 18.55, p < .001, η2 = .47. The decision-making performance under unconscious thought condition coupled with global processing style (3.53.96) is better than that coupled with local processing style (1.47.99, p < .001) and in control condition (2.07.96, p < .001). But no significant difference exists in decision-making performance between participants who thought unconsciously in control condition (2.07.96) or coupled with local processing style (1.47.99, p > .005). Conclusions are drawn as the followings: the effect of unconscious thought on sport decision-making is modulated by processing style when intuitive decision-making information is available and the global processing style can improve the decision-making performance under unconscious thought conditions.

Key words: unconscious thought, conscious thought, sport decision-making, processing style

摘要: 本研究以81名篮球专业的大学生为被试,通过决策篮球视频,考察运动决策中的无意识思维效应。实验1探讨了不同运动决策信息下的无意识思维决策差异,发现呈现直觉性决策信息时,无意识思维组的决策效果好于意识思维组。实验2在无意识思维阶段通过启动被试的加工方式,考察直觉性决策信息下,启动不同的加工方式对运动决策的无意识思维效应的影响,发现整体加工组的无意识思维决策效果最佳。研究结果表明,直觉性决策信息下,启动被试的整体加工方式,其无意识思维的决策效果会有所提升。

关键词: 无意识思维 意识思维 运动决策 加工方式