Concentration

Question 1

concentration

Answer 1

ability to exert deliberate mental effort on whats most important (focus on relavent cues)

Question 2

4 components of concentration

Answer 2

focusing on relevant environmental cues
maintain attentional focus
maintaining situation awareness
shifting attentional focus

Question 3

focusing on relevant environmental cues factors

Answer 3

selective attention
eliminate irrelevent
learn and practice building selective attention
focus on external (hardy, wulf)

Question 4

maintain attentional focus factors

Answer 4

over a period off time
regain concentration in breaks

Question 5

maintaining situation awareness factors

Answer 5

understand what’s going on around
size u[p game situations, opponents and competitions to male appropriate decisions under pressure in time demands

Question 6

shifting attentional focus

Answer 6

ability to alter scope and focus attention

Question 7

shifting attentional focus components

Answer 7

broad external
broad internal - past experience
narrow external - disregard other cues
narrow internal -monitor tension

Question 8

expert vs novice

Answer 8

experts = faster, use advanced visual info, attend more to movement patterns, search systematically for cues, attention to structure in play, successful in predicting

Question 9

expert vs novice research - squash players

Answer 9

16 expert
20 novice
predicted direction and force
experts pick up info earlier and use advanced postural info

Question 10

expert vs novice research - handball

Answer 10

14 expert
23 novice
removed specific parts of the body
asked to predict type of throw
expert = better
throwing arm and ball removed caused worst performance = most crucial to predict

Question 11

expert vs novice research - visual info to strike balls

Answer 11

6 expert
6 novice
block vision at specific time frames
expert = better at pre bound eg early part of ball flight