Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

evidence in psychology? Or does it merely reflect some “New Age”, pseudo-scientific mysticism? In attempting to answer these cha ...

input, imagery arises from our interpretation of stored, memory-based information. Thus the process of generating a mental image ...

patterns tends to elicit neural activity in the occipital lobes at the back of our heads where vision is co-ordinated (ibid.). S ...

Figure 5.1 Tiger Woods uses kinaesthetic imagery to “feel” his shots before he plays them Source: courtesy of Inpho Photography ...

experiencing the unpleasant grating sensation of a nail being scraped across a blackboard (a combination of tactile and auditory ...

physically. The time taken to complete these mental races was then compared with actual race times, As expected, there was a sig ...

despite (or maybe, because of!) more than a century of research on imagery, criticisms have been levelled at both the definition ...

performance of the MP group exceeds that of the control group, a positive effect of mental practice is reported. Based on this e ...

these criticisms, perhaps the two most persistent concerns have been the “validation” problem and an issue stemming from a lack ...

exercise for learning more about the timing of real and imaginary skills. Imagine that you are about to write down your name, ad ...

imagery processes concurrently in the same sensory modality. This interference should manifest itself in errors and longer respo ...

image and reading text on a page draw upon the same neural pathways. Another example of this “like-modality” interference proble ...

causal mechanisms to a centrally stored representation in the brain. The “bio- informational” theory postulates that MP effects ...

elicited by MP and subsequent performance of sport skills. This conclusion was supported in recent research by Lutz (2003). Brie ...

strength. Thus Yue and Cole (1992) used a variation of the mental practice research design to show that imagery training could i ...

actually react in the real-life situation being imagined. Interestingly, Lang (1977, 1979) suggested that response propositions ...

Decety and Ingvar (1990) who discovered that certain brain structures (e.g., the prefrontal areas, supplementary motor areas and ...

To explain, as Murphy and Martin (2002) observed, research on the symbolic rehearsal of movements and skills may blind us to the ...

example, they are subject to contamination from response sets such as social desirability. Put simply, most people are eager to ...

7=“often”) how often they use five specific categories of imagery. These categories include “motivation general—mastery” (e.g., ...