scholarly journals Manipulation of Attention Focus in Long Jumpers to Enhance Performance and Coaching Instructions

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 276-277
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn E. Mendes ◽  
Jeffrey C. Ives ◽  
Deborah L. King
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2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vickie Grooms Denny

The purpose of this study was to determine if an external attention focus was more effective than an internal attention focus for college female volleyball players practicing the complex open skill of the jump float serve. Sixteen college females with prior competitive volleyball playing experience were matched into either an internal or external attention focus group, each serving a total of 30 balls in three blocks of ten serves. After the pre-test, two days of practice and day off, a post-test was conducted for both groups. Results demonstrated a 25% improvement for the internal focus group and a 26.8% improvement for the external focus group. These results suggest that both internal and external focuses of attention are beneficial for practicing the complex jump float serve. However, a paired t-test from the improvement scores of both groups demonstrated no significant difference between the two practice conditions suggesting that either an internal focus or an external focus of attention is effective for practicing the complex jump float serve. In this particular study, external focus of attention was not found to be more effective than an internal focus of attention. Since these results do not support much of the research done with attention focus and sport skills, additional studies are needed comparing internal and external focus of attention, especially when practicing open sport skills.


2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (44) ◽  
pp. 1345-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Isabel Roig ◽  
Salvador Llinares ◽  
Maria del Carmen Penalva

This study provides support to the characteristics of participatory and anticipatory stages in secondary school pupils' abstraction of mathematical conceptions. We carried out clinical task-based interviews with 71 secondary-school pupils to obtain evidence of the different constructed mathematical conceptions (Participatory Stage) and how they were used (Anticipatory Stage). We distinguish two moments in the Participatory Stage based on the coordination of information from particular cases by activity-effect reflection which, in some cases, lead to a change of focus enabling secondary-school pupils to achieve a reorganization of their knowledge. We argue that (a) the capacity of perceiving regularities in sets of particular cases is a characteristic of activity-effect reflection in the abstraction of mathematical conceptions in secondary school, and (b) the coordination of information by pupils provides opportunities for changing the attention-focus from the particular results to the structure of properties.


2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 830-830
Author(s):  
J. C. Rossini ◽  
C. A. Galera
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2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Iim Imadudin

AbstrakKonflik dan integrasi merupakan dua unsur yang inheren dalam kehidupan masyarakat. Dalam kondisi itu terjadi dialektika yang mengakibatkan kehidupan menjadi dinamis. Konflik menjadi jalan ke arah terbentuknya integrasi baru. Dalam masyarakat yang terintegrasikan sedemikian rupa, konflik dapat tumbuh dan berkembang.Lampung sebagai wilayah yang multietnik memiliki potensi konflik yang tinggi. Fakta sejarah menunjukkan sejumlah konflik terjadi di daerah tersebut. Tahun 2000, misalnya, konflik sosial berlangsung dalam intensitas yang tinggi. Ditinjau dari perspektif sejarah, konflik dan integrasi merupakan dua komponen yang berjalin kelindan dalam sejarah masyarakat. Penelitian ini memokuskan perhatian terhadap sebab-sebab dan mediasi  konflik. AbstractConflict and integration represent two element which inherent in life of society. Between both taking place dialectict resulting life become is dynamic. Conflict can become road at formed its of new integration. On the contrary, in integrated society in such a manner conflict can grow and expand. Lampung as region which multietnic society have high conflict potency. History fact showing a number of conflict happened. Evaluated in perspective of history, integration and conflict represent two component interweaving in its society history. This research of its attention focus in conflict mediation and causes.


Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
P. Fraundorf

The insights of many disciplines, and of commonsense, about individual-level well-being might be strengthened by a shift in focus to community-level well-being in a way that respects belief systems as well as the power of each individual. We start with the jargon of complex systems and the possibility that a small number of broken symmetries, marked by the edges of a hierarchical series of physical subsystem types, underlie the delicate correlation-based complexity of life on our planet’s surface. We show that an information-theory-inspired model of attention-focus on correlation layers, which looks in/out from the boundaries of skin, family, and culture, predicts that behaviorally diverse communities may tend toward a characteristic task-layer multiplicity per individual of only e29/20≅ 4.26 of the six correlation layers that comprise that community. This behavioral measure of opportunity may help us to (i) go beyond GDP in quantifying the impact of policy changes and disasters, (ii) manage electronic idea-streams in ways that strengthen community networks, and (iii) leverage our paleolithic shortcomings toward the enhancement of community-level task-layer diversity. Empirical methods for acquiring task-layer multiplicity data are in their infancy, although for human communities a great deal of potential lies in the analysis of web searches and asynchronous experience sampling similar to that used by “flu near you.”


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Tao Zhou

As an emerging service, mobile augmented reality (AR) applications have not received wide adoption among users. This may affect the successful implementation of AR. Integrating both perspectives of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and flow theory, this research examined user adoption of mobile AR applications. The results indicated that performance expectancy and the flow experience consisting of perceived enjoyment, attention focus and perceived control significantly affect usage intention, which in turn affects actual usage behaviour. The results imply that service providers need to improve the perceived utility and user experience in order to facilitate user adoption of mobile AR applications.


2000 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 1809-1813 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ditterich ◽  
T. Eggert ◽  
A. Straube

A shift of the visual attention focus is known to precede saccades. However, how the metrics of both this presaccadic attention shift and the saccade are coupled is still unclear. We altered the saccade size by short-term saccadic adaptation to determine whether the attention focus would still be shifted to the location of the saccade target or to the modified postsaccadic eye position. The results showed that saccadic adaptation had no influence on the presaccadic attention shift. Thus either different processes determine the metrics of the attention shift and of the saccade or saccadic adaptation causes only modifications on a lower hierarchical level of saccade programming, thereby not influencing the metrics of the attention shift.


1998 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Satomi Kawaguchi

Abstract This study of referential choice by Japanese native speakers and learners of Japanese has revealed some significant features in three different types of speech: 1) NS (native speaker)-NS interaction; 2) FT (foreigner talk) and; 3) NNSs’ (non-native speakers’) speech production. The study revealed that both NS in FT and NNS simplified their referential choices. It demonstrates, moreover, that the development of referential choice by NNS correlates with their acquisition of syntax. This experiment was conducted to determine the underlying mechanism for referential choice. The results indicate that potential ambiguity and attention/focus shift affected the referential choices for both NS and NNS of Japanese. Excessive use of both full NPs and ellipsis were observed in NNS speech; by contrast only excessive use of full NPs was observed in FT. This may be explained in terms of the different underlying mechanisms for referential choice used by NS and NNS: different cognitive orientations in the use of two principles of speech production: 1) the clarity principle; and 2) the information economy principle (Williams 1988). Furthermore, the development of use of full NP and ellipsis by NNS varied according to their level of syntactic development.


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