Distraction
Distractors that result from within the self.
What are internal distractors?
This focuses attention, allocates effort, and enhances persistence.
What are goals?
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?
Distractions that result from outside the self such as sounds, sights, or other sensations.
What are external distractors?
These types of goals involve comparison with others.
What are outcome goals?
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 amount of physical and psychological activation ranging from relaxed to intense.
What is level or arousal?
This type of goal is self-referenced and specifies a measurable target, representing an improvement in performance.
What is a performance goal?
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?
An involuntary focus of attention caused by high arousal. Often noise (irrelevant signals) gets ignored.
What is attentional narrowing?
This type of goal is self-referenced and focuses on the technique or strategy required to execute a skill successfully.
What is a process goal?
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?
This type of focus of attention puts focus on what should happen, rather than what the body should do.
What is external focus?
This goal can lead to pressure and anxiety which can hinder progress.
What is a performance goal?
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?