Case study Flashcards
Imagery and performance
1
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Loci method
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- walk through a place you know well (house)
- follow a path, make the images disticnt and novel
- walk through the front door, you see milk on the floor, lettuce on the toilet
- so you pick objects you want to remember and you put it there
2
Q
What is the peg word method?
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- one bun, two shoe, three tree
- pair objects with mental images
3
Q
What do the greatest ahtletes have in common?
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- when they aren’t doing the sport they are imaging doing it
- in the gym all the time
- like steve nash
4
Q
What did the study find about people learning butterfly
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- imagery is better than not practsing at all
- it’s better to do imagery and practise too( had the best results)
- doing real practise but without imagery is not as good as combining imagery and practise
5
Q
What is manifesting?
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Imagine what you want and letting it come to you
6
Q
What did shelley taylor find about imagery and education
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- people who practised imagery performed better when imaging the process
- not muchh progress if you imagine the outcome
- you must imagine the process
- so what you need to do to acheive that grade
7
Q
Impulsive deicision making
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- people would pick 100$ by the end of a day instead of 10$ now
8
Q
temporal discounting
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- imediate reward vs. bigger long term reward
9
Q
what happend when people are asked 10$ now or 100$ in three months?
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- they pick the 10$ now because they don’t know where they will be in three months
- anything longterm is abtract and hard to see
- some people still pick the 100$ though
10
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what happend when people are asked 10$ now or 100$ in three months? but told to imagine where they will be in the future
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- people will pick the other when they have a clear idea of how they will use the money and pick 100$
