KNS 231: Ch. 17 – Concentration
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concentration - correct answer ✔ability to maintain focus on relevant environmental cues. When the
environment changes rapidly, attentional focus must also change rapidly. Thinking of the past or the
future raises irrelevant cues that often lead to performance errors
concentration in sport and exercise settings typically contains four parts: - correct answer ✔- Focusing
on the relevant cues in the environment (selective attention)
- Maintaining that attentional focus over time
- Having awareness of the situation and performance errors
- Shifting attentional focus when necessary
selective attention - correct answer ✔focusing on the relevant environmental cues & irrelevant cues
are either eliminated or disregarded.
situation awareness - correct answer ✔One of the least understood but most interesting and important
aspects of attentional focus in sport is an athlete's ability to understand what is going on around him
associative attentional strategy - correct answer ✔- thinking about our body in that performance, in
tune with body
- monitoring bodily functions and feelings, such as heart rate, muscle tension, and breathing rate
, dissociative attentional strategy - correct answer ✔- thinking about what is going on that has nothing
to do with you
- distraction and tuning out
shift attentional focus - correct answer ✔the ability to alter the scope and focus of attention as
demanded by the situation.
information-processing approach - correct answer ✔approach to the study of cognitive development
by observing and analyzing the mental processes involved in perceiving and handling information
attentional capacity - correct answer ✔The amount of information in short-term memory to which one
can attend.
Selective attention refers to - correct answer ✔letting some information into the information-
processing system while screening out or ignoring other information.
Three common errors are made when this searchlight is focused inappropriately: - correct answer ✔-
Failure to focus all the attention on the essential or relevant elements of the task
- Being distracted from relevant information by irrelevant information
- Inability to divide attention among all the relevant cues that need to be processed concurrently
Attentional capacity refers to - correct answer ✔the fact that attention is limited in that one can
process only so much information at one time.
Controlled processing - correct answer ✔mental processing that involves conscious attention and
awareness of what you are doing when you perform a sport skill.
Question and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
concentration - correct answer ✔ability to maintain focus on relevant environmental cues. When the
environment changes rapidly, attentional focus must also change rapidly. Thinking of the past or the
future raises irrelevant cues that often lead to performance errors
concentration in sport and exercise settings typically contains four parts: - correct answer ✔- Focusing
on the relevant cues in the environment (selective attention)
- Maintaining that attentional focus over time
- Having awareness of the situation and performance errors
- Shifting attentional focus when necessary
selective attention - correct answer ✔focusing on the relevant environmental cues & irrelevant cues
are either eliminated or disregarded.
situation awareness - correct answer ✔One of the least understood but most interesting and important
aspects of attentional focus in sport is an athlete's ability to understand what is going on around him
associative attentional strategy - correct answer ✔- thinking about our body in that performance, in
tune with body
- monitoring bodily functions and feelings, such as heart rate, muscle tension, and breathing rate
, dissociative attentional strategy - correct answer ✔- thinking about what is going on that has nothing
to do with you
- distraction and tuning out
shift attentional focus - correct answer ✔the ability to alter the scope and focus of attention as
demanded by the situation.
information-processing approach - correct answer ✔approach to the study of cognitive development
by observing and analyzing the mental processes involved in perceiving and handling information
attentional capacity - correct answer ✔The amount of information in short-term memory to which one
can attend.
Selective attention refers to - correct answer ✔letting some information into the information-
processing system while screening out or ignoring other information.
Three common errors are made when this searchlight is focused inappropriately: - correct answer ✔-
Failure to focus all the attention on the essential or relevant elements of the task
- Being distracted from relevant information by irrelevant information
- Inability to divide attention among all the relevant cues that need to be processed concurrently
Attentional capacity refers to - correct answer ✔the fact that attention is limited in that one can
process only so much information at one time.
Controlled processing - correct answer ✔mental processing that involves conscious attention and
awareness of what you are doing when you perform a sport skill.
