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What is associative attentional strategy and dissociative attentional strategy?
AAS - Monitoring bodily functions and feelings, such as heart rate, breathing, and muscle tension.
DAS - Not monitoring bodily functions; distraction and tuning out.
What is peak performance?
magic moments when an athlete puts it all together- both physically and mentally
What is the conscious processing hypothesis?
Choking occurs when skilled performers focus too much of their conscious attention to the task, much as they would do if they were a novice at the task.
Attention is limited in the amount of information that can be process at one time
Attentional Capacity
What are some tips for improving concentration?
Use cue words
use non judgemental thinking
develop competition plans
practice eye contact
Why do sport participants neglect psychological skill training?
Lack of knowledge.
Misunderstandings.
Lack of time.
Letting some information into the processing system whole other information is screened or ignored is called?
Attentional Selectivity
Terms such as "im wrong again" "i cant keep going" "im tired" are examples of what type of self talk?
Negative
What are common psychological characteristics associated with peak performance?
Loss of fear – no fear of failure
Total immersion in the activity
Narrow focus of attention on the present
Highly self-confident
Feeling in complete control over emotions, thoughts, behaviour
Physically and mentally relaxed
Highly energized
______ processing is mental processing that involves conscious attention and awareness of what you are doing when you perform a sport or skill
______ processing is mental processing without conscious attention
________ processing is less restrictive than ________processing
Control, automatic, automatic, control
What is an emotional reaction to being injured ?
To effectively process injury-relevant information.
Emotional upheaval and reactive behaviors.
Positive outlook, coping
Stress disrupts an athlete’s attention by reducing peripheral attention and causing distraction and task-irrelevant thoughts.... is called _________ ______
Attention Disruption
What are some other opportunities that athletes should focus on to be successful in their sport?
Diet, sleep, mental strength, imagery healing scripts, improve training and performance omagery ability
Trauma to the body or its parts that results in at least temporary, but sometimes permanent, physical disability and inhibition of motor function... is callled a _________
Injury
Psychological stress increases _____ and _______ which impair the movemne tof healing immune cells to the sit of injury and interfere with the removal of damaged tissue
catecholamines and glucocorticoids
What are the 6 rules for creating effective self talk?
Keep phrases short and specific.
Use the first person and present tense.
Construct positive phrases.
Say your phrases with meaning and attention.
Speak kindly to yourself.
Repeat phrases often
The deliberate strategy of exposing athletes to high-volume and high-intensity training loads that are followed by a lower training load (a rest or taper) is called....
Periodized training
What are some characteristics of burnout?
Exhaustion
Depolarization
Mental Health Challenges
Feelings of anger and confusion, obsession with questions of when can we return to play, rapid mood swings, and dwelling on minor physical complaints are signs of ____________ to athletic injuries
poor adjustment
A psychophysiological response due to frequent but generally ineffective efforts to meet excessive demands, involving a psychological, emotional, and sometimes physical withdrawal from an activity in response to excessive stress or dissatisfaction is called.....
Burnout
What are causes of identity foreclosure?
The structure of sport prevents young athletes from spending enough time with peers outside of sport.
This causes a sole focus on identifying with athletic success, which can be unhealthy, especially when failure or injury occurs
True or False - athletes have decreased mood disturbances under especially heavy training workloads...
False - increased
What are factors leading to burnout? Hint 2
Athletes are starting to train at younger ages.
Training in many sports is virtually year-round
List the 2 specific treatments for physical stressors?
recovery strategy - nutrition hydration eat more carbs
rest
What is the negative training stress response model?
Focuses on physical training (but recognizes the importance of psychological factors).
Physical training stresses the athlete physically and psychologically and can have positive and negative effects