Imagery

Question 1

What are the benefits of imagery?

Answer 1

• Confidence
• Motivation
• Focus
• Movements
• Strength
• Reaction Times
• Rewire Brain
• Epigenetic changes

Question 2

What is imagery?

Answer 2

An experience that mimics a real experience.

Question 3

What is ‘mental practise’?

Answer 3

The cognitive rehearsal of a task prior to performance

Question 4

What is ‘mental rehearsal’?

Answer 4

The cognitive rehearsal of a task in the absence of overt physical movement

Question 5

What is Visualisation?

Answer 5

The formation of mental visual images

Question 6

What are the 2 different perspectives of visual imagery?

Answer 6

• Internal visual imagery perspective
• External visual imagery perspective

Question 7

When can internal visual imagery be used?

Answer 7

when wanting to practise timing of movements or experience a particular situation

Question 8

When can external visual imagery be used?

Answer 8

Useful to see how a movement should look

Question 9

What is kinaesthetic imagery?

Answer 9

Feelings and sensation associated with the image.

E.g., muscles contracting, breathing in cold air, feel of equipment.

Question 10

Name some of the benefits of imagery in sport

Answer 10

• Learn and improve skills and techniques.
• Learn/develop plans and strategies.
• Enhance motivation.
• Modify cognitions.
• Manage emotions.

Question 11

What is ‘imagery ability’?

Answer 11

An individuals capability to form vivid, controllable images and retain them for sufficient time to effect the desired imagery rehearsal

Question 12

What are the 5 key dimensions of Imagery Ability?

Answer 12

Vividness
Controllability
Accuracy
Duration
Ease

Question 13

What are 3 ways of improving imagery ability?

Answer 13

Behavioural matching
Training exercises
Observation and demonstration

Question 14

What are the 5 ways to measure imagery ability?

Answer 14

Self-report
Behavioural
Chronometric
Physiological
Neural

Question 15

What are the advantages to using questionnaires?

Answer 15

• Cheap and easy to administer
• Can easily assess different perspectives, modalities, content
• Direct assessment of imagery ability

Question 16

What are the disadvantages to using questionnaires?

Answer 16

• Difficult to make direct comparisons between people
• Self-report bias/differences in interpretation of the images experienced and rating scales

Question 17

What are the advantages to using objective measures?

Answer 17

Responses easier to compare between people/conditions

Question 18

What are the disadvantages to using objective measures?

Answer 18

• Can be expensive and training required
• More of an indirect assessment of imagery ability – do the responses actually reflect imagery ability

Question 19

What is behavioural matching?

Answer 19

Imagery interventions should stimulate, as closely as possible, all aspects of a participants’ execution situations; especially the sensations associated with relevant movements and their subsequent emotional impact.

Question 20

What does PETTLEP stand for?

Answer 20

P - physical
E - environment
T - task
T - timing
L - learning
E - emotion
P - perspective