Visual Control and Aiming Flashcards
What is performing under pressure?
> Performing under pressure is a skill
Debilitative effects of pressure particularly
common in self-paced skills
Name the 2 models in performing under pressure
> The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat
> Attentional Control Theory (ACT)
What makes up the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat
Challenge Evaluation - What are the demands of
these tasks?
Threat Evaluation - Do you have the resources to
cope?
What does the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat suggest about training?
- No practice = increased risk that the resources to cope with the situation are not developed
- Very risky as this promotes a threat mindset
Are challenge and threat states related to
attentional control theory?
- Challenge = focus on task relevant information
* Threat = focus on task irrelevant information
What is irrelevant information?
– Over-thinking
– External distractions
What makes up the Attentional Control Theory
- Goal-directed attentional system = dominates in low anxiety
- Stimulus-driven attentional system = dominates in high anxiety
Name an example of ACT
Penalty Kick
Navarro et al., (2012)
What causes pressures in the penalty kick scenario?
> Kickers spend more time looking at threat (GK)
Shooting aspects impaired such as accuracy
Changes in visual attention impact movement execution
Name some strategies that will prevent stages in attentional control
– Automatization of one aspect of the task
– Inhibition-training task
– Training with mild pressure
Describe Quiet Eye as an example of attentional control
> Skilled basketball players demonstrate significantly longer quiet eye duration compared to near-experts
Quiet Eye duration hypothesised to decrease under
conditions of high pressure (Wilson et al., 2009)
