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1
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Define Imagery

A

Using all the senses to re-create or create an experience in the mind

2
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What are the 5 types of imagery?

A
  • Visual
  • Kinesthetic
  • Auditory
  • Olfactory
  • Taste
3
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What are the uses of imagery?

A
  • Improving concentration
  • Building confidence
  • Controlling emotional responses
  • Acquiring and practising sports skills
  • Acquiring and praciticing strategy
  • Coping with pain or injury
  • Problem solving
4
Q

What different ways do athletes image?

A
  • Surroundings
  • Nature (Positive/Negative)
  • Internal/External Perspective
  • Types of Imagery
5
Q

What is external perspective imagery more useful for?

A

Suggested to help with acquisition and performance of skills dependent on form (e.g. snatch or C+J)

6
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What is internal perspective imagery more useful for?

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Suggested to help with tasks that depend on perception (e.g. archery, football tackle)

7
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When do athletes use imagery?

A

In all phases/cycles of training

8
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When is imagery more often used by Athletes throughout their training cycle?

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  • More before than during or after competition
  • During Practice
  • During Injury
9
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What are the two main categories of reasons why athletes use imagery? (accoridng to Paivio’s Analytical Framework of Imagery Use)

A

Cognitive and Motivational functions

10
Q

Explain the ‘Motivational’ category of reasons why athletes use imagery

A

visualising goals like winning competition or acquiring a skill helps motivate people to commit to training to achieving that goal

11
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What can the motivational and cognitive imagery categories be further divided into?

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Specific and General; i.e. MS, MG, CS. CG

12
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What can Motivational General (MG) imagery be divided into?

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MG-Mastery and MG-Arousal.

13
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What is MG-Mastery Imagery?

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Imaging performing well to maintain confidence, achieve mental toughness, focus, etc.

14
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What is MG-Arousal Imagery?

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using imagery to psych up or relax onesefl

15
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What is Motivational Specific (MS) Imagery?

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Imaging winning an event, for example, to build/maintain confidence

16
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What is Cognitive Specific (CS) Imagery?

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imaging successfully performing a technique or skill

17
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What is Cognitive General (CG) Imagery?

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Strategy

18
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Two methods of assessing presence of imagery?

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  • Mental Chronometry

- Cognitive Interference

19
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What factors affect the effectiveness of imagery?

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  • Nature of Task
  • Skill level of performer
  • Imaging Ability
  • Presence of it alongside physical practice
20
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What is the Psychoneuromuscular theory of imagery?

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Imagery results in neuromuscular patterns that are identical to the patterns used during the actual movement

21
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What support is there of the psychoneuromuscular theory of imagery?

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Imagery produces low-level innervations of muscles

22
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What is a gap in support for the psychoneuromuscular theory of imagery?

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  • Experiments lacked appropriate contorls

- Patterns of activation do not -always- match

23
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What is the symbolic learning theory of imagery?

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Imagery creates and strengthens ‘mental blueprints’ to make it easier to learn motor skills

24
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What is the bioinformational theory of imagery?

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Imagery which contains stimulus propositions AND response propositions are the most effective at eliciting physiological responses