KP181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ideomotor Phenomenon, Controllability, Stuart Ashen
28 Mar 2016
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Incorporates all senses; sight auditory, olfactory, tactile and kinesthetic. The more polysensory the image, the more real it becomes. Imagery/mental rehearsal/visualization: prior to performance, see whole performance as well as seeing yourself doing the performance: mental practice: skill acquisition, performing a specific skill repetitively. Learning about imagery involves a spontaneous flow of thoughts originating from the unconscious. Different theorists believe that imagery works by producing muscle imagery works by producing muscle activity, providing a mental blueprint" or improving other psychological skills. Theoretical framework: how imagery works: psychoneuromuscular theory (programming muscles for action theory, based on an ideomotor principle of learning. Imagery facilitates learning motor skills because of the nature of the neuromuscular activity patterns activated during the imaging process: vivid images innervate the muscles somewhat like physical practice of the movement, symbolic learning theory. Imagery may function as a coding system to help people understand and acquire movement patterns: ashen"s triple code method.
