Distraction
Distractors that result from within the self.
What are internal distractors?
The parts about us that remain the same over time and make us different from other people.
What is personality?
Words that help direct focus to a singular task.
What are trigger words?
The concentration of mental activity on current tasks, or active awareness of what you are observing
What is attention?
Awareness of the present.
What is mindfulness?
Distractions that result from outside the self such as sounds, sights, or other sensations.
What are external distractors?
How a person is acting temporarily.
What is a state?
Doing the same actions prior to every task to help combat negative thoughts and reduce cognitive load.
What are routines?
The intentional direction of mental effort to current situation
What is concentration?
The ability to recover from difficulty.
What is Resilience?
The amount of physical and psychological activation ranging from relaxed to intense.
What is level or arousal?
Stable tendencies of how someone acts over time.
What are trait personality factors?
Visualizing/imagining a task being done to help identify possible distractions or other events.
What is mental practice?
Ignoring distractions while focusing on important information.
What is selective attention?
The ability to carry out tasks successfully, despite problems. Less likely to give up.
What is commitment?
An involuntary focus of attention caused by high arousal. Often noise (irrelevant signals) gets ignored.
What is attentional narrowing?
Personalities are developed constantly through interactions of the person and the environment.
What is Interactionism?
A goal that helps turn attention to the current task.
What are performance goals?
This is an involuntary focus of attention caused by high arousal.
What is attentional narrowing?
A method for athletes to control their state of mind through avoiding certain thoughts and promoting others which can promote mental toughness.
What is Psychological Skills Training?
This type of focus of attention puts focus on what should happen, rather than what the body should do.
What is external focus?
These two traits are linked to sticking to programs.
What are extraversion and conscientiousness?
Intentionally making the decision to be focused.
What are deliberate decisions?
The ability to multitask, do more than one action at the same time
What is divided attention?
Name three attributes of mental toughness.
What are unshakable self-belief, determination, resilience, handling pressure, coping skills, remaining focused, and persistence?