Attention and Concentration 1.10.24

Question 1

What is concentration?

Answer 1

the mental effort placed on sensory or mental events. Person’s ability to exert deliberate mental effort

Question 2

What are the 4 components of concentration?

Answer 2

Selective attention
Maintain attentional focus
Situational awareness
Shifting attentional focus when necessary

Question 3

What is the difference between experts and novices in attentional processing?

Answer 3

Make faster and better decisions
Search more systematically for cues
Can predict ball flight patterns

Question 4

What is attentional selectivity?

Answer 4

Letting info into the processing system while other info is ignored

Question 5

What is human performance limited by?

Answer 5

Being too broad
Being distracted
Unable to shift focus quickly

Question 6

What is Attentional capacity?

Answer 6

There’s a limited amount of info that can be processed at one time

Question 7

What is controlled processing?

Answer 7

Mental processing involving conscious attention

Question 8

What is Automatic Processing?

Answer 8

Mental processing without conscious attention
Athletes change from controlled to automatic as they get better

Question 9

What is expertise characterised by?

Answer 9

Shifting from controlled to automatic

Question 10

What are the 4 types of attentional focus? (table)

Answer 10

Broad
Narrow
Internal
External

Question 11

Broad/external attentional focus?

Answer 11

assesses situation quickly

Question 12

Narrow/external attentional focus?

Answer 12

Can home in on one or two shots

Question 13

Broad/internal attentional focus?

Answer 13

Planning a shot/ game plan

Question 14

Narrow/internal attentional focus?

Answer 14

Mentally rehearse/ relaxation

Question 15

What is associative attentional strategy?

Answer 15

monitoring bodily functions eg HR, Breathing rate

Question 16

What is dissociative attentional strategy

Answer 16

Not monitoring bodily function, distraction

Question 17

What can dissociation do?

Answer 17

Does not increase probability of injury, but can decrease fatigue and monotony

Question 18

Who should use dissociation?

Answer 18

people who want to increase adherence to exercise

Question 19

What are examples of internal distractions?

Answer 19

Fatigue, inadequate motivation, choking under pressure

Question 20

What are external distractions?

Answer 20

Visual and auditory distractions

Question 21

Explain choking as an attention problem

Answer 21

an attentional process that leads to impaired performance and the inability to retain control

Question 22

What is conscious processing hypothesis?

Answer 22

Choking occurs when skilled performers focus too much of their conscious attention to the task as much as a novice