Anxiety and attention 3

Question 1

Within the statement, there is emphasis on what?

Answer 1

The importance of a player’s routine and the importance of trusting that routine

Question 2

Moran (1996) defines a pre-performance routine as…

Answer 2

“a sequence of task-relevant thoughts and actions that an athlete systematically engages in prior to performance of a self-paced sport skill”

Question 3

what is suggested about a pre performance routine?

Answer 3

this can help players maintain appropriate attentional control under pressure (Mesagno et al, 2008).

Question 4

A study by Jordet et al (2009) presented that what?

Answer 4

players who take less than one second to place the ball score about 58% of their penalties compared to those who take longer than a second and score around 80% of their penalties.

Question 5

Developing and practicing a suitable pre-shot routine has been advised as what?

Answer 5

a useful way to guide these timings and so is a key aspect of psychological preparation.

Question 6

A pre-shot routine can also encourage performers to…..

Answer 6

focus their attention and protect performance under pressure, particularly if it involves a gaze element where players look at the point where they want to shoot prior to the run-up (Wood & Wilson, 2012)

Question 7

However, a weakness of the BASES statement is that…

Answer 7

it is not necessarily generalisable to each individual.

Question 8

For example, Jackson (2003) looked at penalty concentration times and found what?

Answer 8

that players who spent 3 seconds concentrating prior to taking the kick had a 78% success rate and players who spent 20 seconds concentrating had a very similar success rate of 77%.