PSYC 2660 Lecture 22: Lecture 22
7 Aug 2018
School
Department
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Professor
6.
Athletes
should
use
“countering”
and
“reframing”
to
counteract
negaive
thoughts
o
focuses
on
counteracing
towards
negaive
events
that
are
associated
with
a
lack
of
conidence
o
countering
using
facts
and
reasons
to
build
a
case
against
negaive
thinking
o
reframing
examining
a
situaion
from
a
diferent
perspecive
in
order
to
view
that
situaion
more
posiively
o
from
a
behavioural
perspecive,
the
techniques
of
countering
and
reframing
involve
rule-governed
control
over
behaviour
and
when
rule-governed
control
is
over
behaviour,
it
is
important
to
remember
that
a
rule
is
most
likely
to
exert
control
over
behaviour
if
the
rule
ideniies
a
speciic
behaviour,
a
deadline
for
performing
it
and
a
sizeable
and
probable
consequence
for
the
behaviour
are
speciied
or
implied
7.
Athletes
should
prepare
and
follow
a
compeiion
plan
o
can
help
athletes
manage
their
thoughts,
manage
their
anxiety
and
stay
focused
Maintain
Conidence
and
Concentraion
during
a
Compeiion
1.
Athletes
should
be
energized
by
remain
calm
o
inverted
U
shape
relaion
between
physiological
arousal
and
performance
o
an
athlete
should
feel
both
loose
and
energized
o
opimum
level
of
arousal
the
level
of
physiological
arousal
associated
with
peak
performance
can
difer
from
person
to
person
and
sport
to
sport
the
frequency
of
compeiions
can
also
make
a
diference
can
all
depend
on
the
task,
athlete,
nature
of
the
sport,
frequency
of
compeiions
and
the
circumstances
around
the
compeiions
Document Summary
Athletes should prepare and follow a compeiion plan: can help athletes manage their thoughts, manage their anxiety and stay focused. Athletes should focus on what they want to do, not what they don"t want to do: focus on what one wants to do during a compeiion, not what one doesn"t want to do this helps maintain conidence. The athlete is atending too many cues or distracions from the environment. To ensure good conidence and concentraion during compeiions, one must make the inal stages of pracice as similar as possible to the condiions presented at compeiions. Another strategy for minimizing the efects of distracions is for the athlete to have a well-praciced compeiion plan to follow on the day of the compeiion. Problem: the athlete experiences (cid:3247)paralysis by analysis(cid:3248) this is over analyzing the paricular movements that go with performing a skill athletes should be able to do these moves without over thinking things.
