SPORT PSYCHOLOGY INTERVENTIONS Flashcards

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What is psychological skills training?

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  • a program or intervention that entails a structured and consistent practice of psychological skills
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What are the three distinct phases of psychological skills training?

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  • education phase
  • acquisition phase
  • practice phase
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What does the education phase of psychological skills training consist of?

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  • athletes recognize importance of mental skills and performance impact
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What does the acquisition phase of psychological skills training consist of?

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  • athletes acquire various psychological skills and learn to employ them
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What does the practice phase of psychological skills training consist of?

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  • implement skills in practice and competition
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What is goal setting?

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  • practice of establishing desirable objectives for one’s actions
  • most common performance enhancement strategy
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What are performance goals?

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  • improvement and attainment of personal performance standards
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What are process goals?

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  • specific behaviours in which athletes must engage throughout a performance
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What are outcome goals?

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  • social comparison and competitive results
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Why are goals important?

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  • goals direct attention, mobilize effort, foster persistence, and promote the development of new learning strategies
  • enhance self-confidence and satisfaction
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Why is team goal setting important?

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  • effective for enhancing cohesion levels
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What is performance profiling?

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  • identifying athletes’ performance-related strengths and weaknesses
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How can we identify athletes’ performance-related strengths and weaknesses?

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  • identify key performance characteristics
  • identify ideal rating for each characteristic
  • rate current ability for each characteristic
  • find discrepancy score by subtracting current rating from ideal rating
  • prioritize targets
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What are SMART goals?

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Specific
Measurable
Adjustable
Realistic
Timely
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What are some common goal setting problems?

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  • setting too many goals.
  • failure to recognize individual differences
  • underestimating implementation time
  • failure to provide follow-up and evaluation
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What is imagery?

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  • an experience that mimics real experience

- incorporates sight, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and kinesthetic senses

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What is cognitive general imagery?

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  • includes images of strategies, game plans, or routines
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What is motivational general imagery?

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  • includes images relating to physiological arousal levels and emotions
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What does the analytic model of imagery consist of?

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  • cognitive general imagery

- motivational general imagery

20
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What is motivational specific imagery?

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  • images related to individual’s goals
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What is motivational general-arousal function?

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  • imagery associated with arousal and stress
22
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What is motivational general- mastery function?

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  • imagery associated with being mentally tough, in control, and self-confident
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What are some imagery assessment tools?

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  • Movement Imagery Questionnaire-Revised
  • Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire
  • Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ)
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What is the PETTLEP model of imagery?

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Physical
Environmental
Task
Timing
Learning
Emotion
Perspective
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What are some recommendations for using imagery?

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  • incorporate into daily routine
  • requires deliberate practice (more is better)
  • athletes become better imagers over duration of intervention
  • better imagers have more effective images
  • positivity
  • use during off-season as well
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What is self-talk?

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verbalizations or statements that are:

  • addressed to the self
  • serve as instructional or motivation means
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What is instructional self-talk?

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  • used for skill development, skill execution, strategy development, and general performance improvement
28
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What are the three purposed of motivational self-talk?

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  • mastery
  • arousal
  • drive
29
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What does the self talk grid measure?

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  • valence
  • directional interpretation
  • seems fucking dumb
30
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What are ways to assess self talk?

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  • Self-Talk Use Questionnaire
  • Self-talk and Gestures Rating Scale
  • Self-Talk Grid
31
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What are the six dimensions of self talk?

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Valence
Verbalization
Self-determination
Directional interpretation
Directional intensity
Frequency
32
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What are some strategies to assist in arousal regulation?

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  • breathing
  • progressive relaxation
  • meditation
  • autogenic training
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What is progressive relaxation?

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  • involves tensing and relaxing specific muscles
34
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What is autogenic training?

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  • focuses on feelings associated with limbs and muscles
35
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What are some “psyching-up” strategies?

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  • Pep Talks
  • Verbal Cues
  • Imagery
  • Pre-competitive Workouts
  • Music
  • Breathing
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What are the three mental training stages for arousal regulation?

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  • learning stage
  • training stage
  • application stage`
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What are the two component of attention?

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  • recognition that it is a limited resources

- selectively processes specific information while ignoring other information

38
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What is poor performance often attributed to?

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  • losses of concentration or becoming distracted
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What does it mean to me maladaptive?

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  • result of misguided attention control combined with elevated anxiety
40
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What is temporal occlusion?

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  • examines the amount of time people take to select the information they need in order to respond
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What is event occlusion?

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  • examines which characteristics of the performance people use to make a correct response
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Describe the two self-report measures?

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  • association: focusing inward and toward bodily sensations (e.g. breathing, muscle soreness)
  • disassociation: focusing outward and away from the body (e.g. favorite song, scenery)
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What is mindfulness?

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  • the quality or state of being conscious or aware

- involves non-judgmental, present moment and task relevant awareness