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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"attentional focus"”.
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Attentional Focus Strategies of Multi-Sport Athletes.
… purpose of this study was to determine (a) the attentional focus strategies used by triathletes during the three stages of an Olympic distance triathlon, (b) if level of experience influences the attentional focus strategies used by triathletes, and (c) whether there is a relationship between …
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Effect of Attentional Focus on Learning and Performance in Youth Sports
… movements, conscious control for propensity, attentional focus, and acquisition of motor-skills. Due to significant differences between athletes, not all instructions and feedback provided by coaches are best suited for every player. Instructions and feedback may direct an athlete’s …
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Young children's understanding of attentional focus and seeing leads to knowing
The present study examined how knowledge of attentional focus and the understanding that seeing=knowing develop between 24- and 30-months of age. Twenty-seven 24-month-old children and twenty-three 30-month-old children participated in two tasks. In each task, children were asked to retrieve a toy …
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The Effects of Intensity Level and Expertise on Attentional Focus During Exercise
… maintaining or improving a healthy lifestyle. Attentional focus during exercise has been identified as one casual factor with regard to exercise adherence. Attentional focus has traditionally oeen defined as associative or dissociative (Morgan & Pollock, 1977). Association implies that an …
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Positive Emotion, Attentional Focus and Physical Health-Related Behaviors in the Family System
… towards approaching/acting upon that motive), attentional focus and physical health-related behaviors, including physical activity and overeating, in adolescents and their primary caregivers. Greater overall positive emotion has been linked with increased engagement in physical activity and …
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The Effects of Attentional Focus and Expertise Level on Self-Selected Exercise Intensity
… to investigate the effects of being prompted to focus on self-talk versus bodily sensations on exercise intensity chosen by participants and level of enjoyment. One hundred and forty-two undergraduate psychology students ran on a treadmill for 20 minutes on two separate days, one week apart. One …
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The Influence of Preferred Attentional Focus Strategies on Exercise Induced Changes in Affect
… has neglected to investigate how preference for attentional focus strategy during exercise influences mood. In addition, previous studies that involved attentional focus and exercise have focused more on participant’s resulting performance than affect. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to …
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Exploring Elite Soccer Players' Attentional Focus in Performance Tasks and Game Situations
… study was to investigate elite soccer players' attentional focus during their best performances, better understand the strategies they use to enter or re-enter optimal attentional states, and explore potential attentional differences according to soccer positions, performance tasks, and game …
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An Examination of the Effects of Mindfulness and Task-Relevant Attentional Focus on Running Performance
… the effect of mindfulness and task-relevant attentional focus on running performance. WKU psychology undergraduate students were assigned to one of two conditions: task-relevant attentional focus experimental training and no training control. Participants in the experimental condition …
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The Influence of Attentional Focus on the Self-Efficacy-Performance Relationship in a Continuous Running Task
… relationship under three conditions of attentional focus. The secondary purpose was to examine self-efficacy and performance as separate constructs under the same conditions of attention. Participants ran continuously for one kilometer in one of three randomly assigned attentional focus …
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The Effects of Attentional Focus, Presentation Mode, and Language Experience on Second Language Learners' Sentence Processing
… present study sought to explore the effects of attentional focus, presentation mode, and level of language experience on second language (L2) learners' processing of Object-Verb-Subject sentences in Spanish. The Competition Model and the first language sentence processing research that centers …
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The Effects of Motivational and Instructional Self Talk on the Attentional Focus of High School Distance Runners.
… purposes of this study were to examine the (a) attentional focus strategies used by high school distance runners, (b) changes in attentional focus across four laps in three 1.6 km runs, and (c) effects of a pre-performance intervention using motivational and instructional self talk on the …
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The effects of consistency and inconsistency between attentional focus and task objective in learning a golf putting task
… advantages when an individual is instructed to focus their attention externally. However, many of the motor tasks utilized in past research had clear external objectives (i.e., putting accuracy), creating a compatible relationship between an external focus of attention (i.e., outcome) and an …
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Influência da manipulação do foco atencional sobre a atenção seletiva visual, tempo de reação e capacidade funcional de mulheres idosas praticantes do método Pilates
… a single session. In this context, manipulating attentional focus during practice may influence performance in cognitive and functional aspects, making it a relevant factor to explore in interventions with this population. Objective: To examine the influence of attentional focus manipulation …
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The effect of mental practice immediately prior to performance on the acquisition of a motor skill
… either mental practice, a reading task, an attentional focus task, or massed practice. Subjects then performed trial 3. Then 52 subjects transferred to the nonpreferred hand for trials 4 and 5. The remaining subjects continued to trace with the preferred hand for trials 4 and 5. Subjects in …
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Human Attention in Virtual Reality Applications: Exploration of VR Artwork
… and techniques for investigating users' attentional focus and locomotion patterns within virtual environments, presenting novel approaches to enhance VR user experiences.<br/>The research begins with an exploratory study, investigating the area of VR, hardware technologies, tracking …
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ELECTROCORTICAL CHANGES OBSERVED IN THE N2 AS AN OUTCOME OF ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION TRAINING
… Increased anxiety is associated with elevated attentional focus to threat also known as attentional bias to threat. Attention Bias Modification (ABM) is a type of computerized training, attempting to reduce attentional focus for threatening stimuli and has been found to successfully reduce …
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The SPEED Study: <b>S</b>elf <b>P</b>aced <b>E</b>xercise and <b>E</b>ndpoint <b>D</b>efinition
… the duration or distance of an exercise session, attentional focus and the perception of time can contribute to pacing strategy, and perhaps play a role in the maintenance of an exercise or sport program; however, little is known about the relationship among these factors and no research has been …
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A study on the effects of music on performance outcomes of Judo competitors
… outcome variables of circuit completion time, attentional focus, emotional affect, rate of perceived exertion, motivation and emotional attachment to music. Paired samples t-test were run to compare baseline and post condition (for circuit completion time, attentional focus, PANAS, RPE) to …
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