Heuristic model of performance failures

Question 1

Heuristic model

Answer 1

Goes from continuous worsening of motor control
from temporary failure

to MPA

to increasingly unstable motor

to Focal dystonia

Question 2

Sensorimotor triggering factors

Answer 2

MPA:
- Workload
- Long practice
- Technical difficulties

CuP
- Overuse
- biomechanical obsticles
- Late start
- Controllability of actions

Question 3

Psychological triggering factors

Answer 3

MPA:
- Trait anxiety
- low self-confidence
- Catastrophising
- Perfectionism

CuP
- Fear- conditioning
- Reinvestment
- over-focusing
- Cognitive interference

Question 4

Efficient treatment (also applied in sport psych)

Answer 4

CBT, mindfulness, breathing/relaxation techniques.