Goal setting and info processing

• Goal setting


  Imparts motivation
• Goal setting

  • Set by athlete or coach
  • Aspire to target
  • Improve preparation physically and mentally
• Goal setting


  Can be long term or short term
• Performance Goals

  Personal standards to be achieved
• Performance Goals

  • Compare themselves to what is already done
  • Compare themselves to what they intend to do
  • Better for beginners
• Outcome Goals

  Focus on end result
• Outcome Goals


  • Comparison with other competitors
  • Performance not important, just outcome result
  • Better suited for elite athletes
• Time in a 100m race is an example of an Outcome Goal
• Processing


  1. Making decisions

  2. Gather data from senses

  3. Proactive important stimuli to make decisions
• FRIC is a model for processing information
• FRIC stands for Feedback, Input, Decision making, and Output
• August 20th


  2014
• HE FC is an example of an input