Chapters 12
When new psychological skills are being learned, this is the recommended time commitment to practicing them.
What is 3-5 days a week, 10-15 minutes a day?
The "yips" and Lost Move Syndrome (LMS) can both be classified under this term.
What are performance blocks?
This is a form of simulation that involves recalling from memory pieces of information stored from experience and shaping those pieces into meaningful images.
What is imagery?
This type of goal focuses on the actions an individual must engage in during performance to execute or perform well.
What are process goals?
This is an attentional process that leads to impaired performance and the inability to retain control over performance without outside assistance.
What is choking?
This refers to the systematic and consistent practice of mental or psychological skills for the purpose of enhancing performance, increasing enjoyment, or achieving greater self-satisfaction.
What is psychological skills training (PST)?
This type of mental training attempts to identify and modify stress-inducing self-statements.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This type of self-confidence is similar to Murphy's Law, and is defined as expecting something to happen actually helps cause it to happen.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
These types of goals are the most effective for enhancing performance.
Mastery-approach goals
This is the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.
What is mindfulness?
These are the three phases of psychological skills training. Name them in order.
What are the Education phase, Acquisition phase and Practice phase?
This hypothesis refers to matching the type of anxiety management technique to the specific anxiety problem of each athlete.
What is the matching hypothesis?
Bioinformational theory states that images have these two propositions.
What are response and stimulus propositions?
Focusing on performance (as opposed to outcome) goals during competition has been shown to be associated with _____ anxiety and _____ performance.
What is reduced anxiety and increased performance?
According to new theories of multiple resource pools, this type of awareness is distributed throughout the nervous system.
What is attentional capacity?
Self-regulation is the ultimate goal of PST. Name three of the five stages of self-regulation.
What are:
1. Problem identification
2. Commitment
3. Execution
4. Environmental management
5. Generalization
1. Breath control
2. Stress inoculation training
3. Systematic desensitization
What are:
1. Somatic anxiety reduction
2. Multimodal anxiety reduction
3. Cognitive anxiety reduction
Name two of the four stages in coaches' expectations and athletes' performance.
What are:
1. Coaches form expectations
2. Coaches' expectations influence their behaviors
3. Coaches' behaviors affect athletes' performance
4. Athletes' performance confirm the coaches' expectations
Name each letter of the SMART goals acronym.
Name three of the five P's of self-talk.
What are:
1. Purpose
2. Personalized
3. Positive phrasing
4. Practiced
5. Position
Label the Cognitive and Motivational Functions of Imagery Matrix featured on the screen with their correct imagery responses.
Top to bottom, left to right - Goal-oriented responses, Skills, Arousal, Strategy