Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

Temporal occlusion paradigm The temporal occlusion paradigm is a method which requires participants to guess “what happens next” ...

Figure 6.3 Eye-tracking technology allows psychologists to study visual search behaviour in expert athletes Source: Courtesy of ...

image of the eye. The relative position of these features is used to compute the visual point of gaze. The infra-red eye camera ...

Using a combination of the four preceding methods, a number of expert-novice differences in sport have been identified in recent ...

had been presented to them. There is also evidence that experts tend to represent problems at a deeper level than novices becaus ...

Box 6.4 Do anticipatory abilities develop over time? In sport, the term “anticipation” refers to an athlete’s ability to predict ...

required by the sports in question. An interesting testcase of the “transferability” of athletic skills concerns the question of ...

Critical thinking questions Do you agree with the definitions of success that were used above? How could you analyse scientifica ...

players? Of course, the “hardware” answer to this question is that we are not born with sufficient athletic talent to do so. But ...

accomplished? What chunking strategies were exploited? Interestingly, the volunteer in question (“S.F.”) was a keen varsity trac ...

“Deliberate practice” According to Ericsson et al. (1993), “deliberate practice” is a highly structured, purposeful form of prac ...

parents may facilitate skill development by encouraging him or her to take some lessons in the activity in question. Stage 2 can ...

results showed that after this period of time, both the soccer and hockey players realised that a significantly greater investme ...

completely automated (Ericsson, 2001b). As yet, however, little research has been conducted to test the proposition that experts ...

may merely indicate that people who are highly motivated in a given field will spend more time practising in it and hence are mo ...

Starkes et al., 2001). First, a great deal of confusion surrounds the use of the term “expert” at present. To illustrate, this t ...

Summary We have long been fascinated by the exploits of expert performers in any field—those who display exceptional talent, kno ...

Part three TEAM COHESION Overview So far in this book, we have introduced the discipline and profession of sport and exercise ps ...

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Chapter 7 Exploring team cohesion in sport: a critical perspective Lions tours are about bonding together. As a touring side you ...