PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Goal Setting, Relaxation Technique

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Ericsson states that there is a limit to the amount of deliberate practice you can do at once: 4 hours. If you start at age 8, and you do 4 hours a day of deliberate practice, you will continue to see improvement; but you will never catch up to someone who began deliberate practice when they were 5. The only way is if they overtrained, burns out, or if you get a more advanced coach who has better practice techniques. Compared to ericsson"s model which only focuses on deliberate practice, his model looks at what conditions were present when the athlete performed their best and tries to replicate that. Terry believes in natural talent, and believes it"s also important for the athlete to believe that are innately gifted. Innate talent, a basic necessity but not enough to ensure excellence. Myriam bedard won the gold medal after 6 years; discounted the 10-year- rule she believed she had a innate talent.