PSYC 3480 Chapter 26: eBook-Chapter 26.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Never let it rest, until your good is better. Pprs are mapped out sequences of thoughts, self-talk, feelings, and actions that an athlete uses to help control arousal and enhance attention and concentration. Such routines are known to facilitate performance, and create a sense of control over motor skills, arousal, and thinking. Will differ in their steps, order, and details from athlete to athlete and from sport to sport. Unless environmental conditions are variable, a relatively high degree of consistency of routine must be fully integrated into executed action itself. Extraneous stress-producing thoughts, fear of failure, self-doubt, and tense tight muscles are less probable when thoughts and behaviors are fully engaged in appropriate physical and mental rituals. Not to be confused with superstitious behaviours superstitious rituals can enhance confidence, they are based on irrational associations between beliefs, behaviours, and outcomes: pprs are habitual mental and physical actions of established procedure that optimize readiness.