PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wayne Gretzky, Tiger Woods, Stephen Curry

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

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Lecture 8 expert performance in everyday life. Only had a small gym: drills instead of games. Meet every day for 2 hours basic drills. Can usually be overcome: trying to understand plateau. Thinking you didn"t have the natural ability to get better. People passing me had more of a capacity to go higher and higher. Has to do with the way you"re training, being taught, how hard your working on very specific goals that will lead to skill improvement. Types of practice (updated in peak 2017: na ve doing repeatedly and expecting repetition to result in improvement, purposeful practice that is goal-oriented, thoughtful and focused, well-defined specific goals, focused requires full attention. Involves feedback: you must get out of comfort zone, deliberate activities designed to push you beyond your current level, requires a field that is relatively well developed. There exist accepted training methods: required expert instruction, ericsson"s research combined purposeful and deliberate together under the term.