PDFE 3

I watched a Braves game on television against the Nationals to complete my PDFE. I observed reaction time when a batter came to the plate, the ball was pitched, and the time it took for the stimulus to leave a batters brain to the time it took for the batter to actually swing and make contact (or in our case not make contact) with the ball. I observed hicks law when there was a runner on base and a pitcher was trying to decide whether to throw to the occupied base or to the batter at home. The pitches tended to take longer because they had more decisions to process before they acted (or initiated a stimulus). When a pitch is thrown in baseball and a runner on second starts to run toward third because they think the hitter will make progress along the bases. This initial reaction to run is a result of reaction time, but when the batter gets a strike instead of a hit the runner has to run back to second before he is thrown or tagged out. This return to base is a psychological refractory period because the brain is convicted to do one thing when the entire stimulus must be turned around and the brain must be told and convinced that it is actually going to do something different. An accurate interpretation of a pitch both spatially and temporally should result in a hit. However, when there are other circumstances involved a hitter often isn’t just focused on two aspects of his response. This inability to correctly interpret the spatial and temporal stimulus results in a strike.