Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

tendency to apply the same rating to all items regardless of the content involved)? Having analysed how mental imagery processes ...

Box 5.6 Thinking critically about...athletes’ use of mental imagery Many applied sport psychologists provide lists of assumed ap ...

than 600 prospective Olympic athletes employed imagery techniques while training for competition. Clearly, imagery is used exten ...

motivational and cognitive purposes. Although the former category is rather “fuzzy” and ill-defined, it includes applications li ...

experiences. Fifth, Cumming and Hall (2002b) raise the intriguing proposition that the theory of deliberate practice (see Chapte ...

design a study that could arbitrate empirically between these rival theoretical predictions using the skill of tennis serving. I ...

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Chapter 6 What lies beneath the surface? Investigating expertise in sport Expert performance is similar to an iceberg...only one ...

we should not overlook the fact that this action is a consequence of at least 10,000 or more hours of practice in the sport in q ...

In everyday life, the term “expert” is used in a variety of different ways. For example, at a humorous level, it could refer to ...

researchers agree that the ten-year rule is a robust and useful criterion for distinguishing between expertise and average level ...

our admiration of other people’s expertise beguiles us into believing that we too could have untapped potential which could be t ...

sport is facilitated by the profusion of ranking and rating systems available to researchers—a fact which enables investigators ...

distinctive characteristic of expert athletes. For example, Abernethy and Russell (1987) found that top-class squash players bas ...

Box 6.2 Does size really matter? Bigger is not always better in sport! In the 1999 World Cup in rugby, Jonah Lomu, New Zealand’s ...

time. In fact, as explained earlier, it takes about 200 milliseconds for anyone to react to a given stimulus—regardless of wheth ...

enhancing hormone erythropoietin, and basketball players may seek artificial height increases! Fortunately for legislators and s ...

recall and recognition tasks, the “temporal occlusion” paradigm and eye-tracking technology). Although we shall describe each of ...

thoughts, feelings and focus of attention in real-life situations. For example, in a variation of this procedure, McPherson (200 ...

Figure 6.2a A meaningful “three-man defence” pattern in rugby Figure 6.2b A meaningless “three- man defence” pattern in rugby Sp ...