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"How to stay calm under pressure"

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  • In the golf study, who performed better: those focused on ball flight or arm movement?
    Those focused on the ball’s flightwho performed better.
  • Which memory system is especially sensitive to pressure?
    Working memory
  • Where is choking most common?
    In sports
  • What happens when someone overthinks their movements?
    Their performance gets worse
  • What do explicit monitoring theories say?
    People overthink actions that are normally automatic
  • How do these routines help?
    They improve accuracy under pressure.
  • What focus works better: internal or external?
    External focus.
  • What is a pre-performance routine?
    A calming ritual (deep breaths, cue word, etc.)
  • What do distraction theories say?
    Worries and doubts take attention away from the task
  • What is one way to avoid choking?
    Practice under pressure
  • Which athletes performed worse when focusing on tiny details of their swing?
    Golfers
  • In the 2004 study,what kind of tasks became harder under pressure?
    Complex, memory-heavy math problems
  • Who is more likely to choke?
    Anxious or self-conscious people
  • What do scientists say choking is mainly connected to?
    Focus
  • Who else can experience choking besides athletes?
    Public speakers, musicians, spelling bee contestants
  • What do people usually blame choking on?
    Nerves
  • What happens when important and unimportant thoughts compete?
    The brain becomes overloaded
  • What updated saying does the text suggest?
    Practice under pressure, with focus, and with the end goal in mind.
  • What is “choking”?
    Failing at an important moment because of pressure
  • What did the study on dart players show?
    Those who trained under stress performed better
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