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| What your mind is focused on. |
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| A person's ability to exert deliberate mental effort on what is most important in a given situation. |
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Attentional Selectivity: What are you thinking about? Examples include specific skills (dribbling a basketball), conscious to unconscious control and adrenaline, which can intensify focus levels.
Attentional Capacity: How long can you focus on it? Examples include processing limited information at one time. There's a finite amount of focus we can maintain per day. Stress drains it like a battery.
Attentional Alertness: Can you shift focus to different stimuli? The nervous system can process 110 bits per second, (one person speaking = 50 bits). Example includes tunnel vision, an increase in energy narrowing the field of vision. Different sports need different focus skills. |
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· Width
· - Broad focus: must respond to multiple cues (point guard on fast break.)
· - Narrow focus: Respond to one or two cues (baseball hitter preparing to swing.)
· Direction
· - External Focus: focus on an outward object, (hockey puck.)
· - Internal focus: Focus on thoughts and feelings. |
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Process: Present-moment or in the moment thinking. Focusing on the current task at hand, going through process cues, (knees bent, smooth follow). Usually task (mastery) motivated people.
Outcome: Thinking about past moments or future possible outcomes. Undisciplined thoughts ("if I miss this shot, we will lose"). Can lead to failure under pressure. |
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| Player or team was strongly favored or had a big lead, and lost. |
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| Conscious Processing Hypothesis |
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| Choking occurs when skilled performers focus too much attention on the task, as if they were a novice. Increases pressure/nerves. |
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| The result of confidence, focus and intrinsic motivation. Being completely absorbed in the activity and being successful in autopilate. Like being in a meditative or hypnotic state, (in the moment). Loss of self-consciousness, slowing down time, (not thinking, just doing), effortless movement and clarity. Allows for peak performance. |
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| A quality of experience that is the feeling that one gets when one is doing the best at something that is difficult to do. Founded by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. |
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· Lack of confidence.
· Negative mindset.
· Distractions.
· Too much pressure.
· Unhappiness.
· Outcome Thoughts. |
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