Interpersonal Communication Assignment
For this assignment, I chose to interview my friend, Soledad, because she has been an athlete for four years. She started playing soccer in 2013 while in her junior year in high school and her main positions is defense and right midfield. She played on the high school’s soccer team and after she graduated, she and her friends started playing with a local soccer team with her friends in which they compete with each other or other local soccer teams. She is one of the only friends that I have that leads an athletic lifestyle which is considerably different than a person like myself who lies a very sedentary lifestyle. It was very interesting to learn and examine the life of an athlete for the first time. To start, I asked Soledad on what she
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The technique that she uses is elf tak (pg 378)in which she uses positive statements to get herself pumped up and confident through the games even when she feels that she is playing badly. The mantra, “We will win this game”, allows her to be completely concentrated on the game so I asked her what could possibly take her attention off from the game and she responded that the load roaring of the crowd mainly causes her to lose her concentration which is an external distractor (pg 377). I asked her what she did to get the noises out of her head and she said that her mantra were also her cue words (pg 386) to override the noise, clear her head, and prevent her from performing badly on the field. I deduced that the type of attention style that she has to uses is broad-external attentional focus (pg 372) because she has a constant changing environment in which she has to pay attention to many cues in order and narrow-external ( pg 372) to determine what her next move is to play efficiently and effectively. As I was reviewing her answers, I confidently feel that she has a moderate individualized zone of optimal functioning (pg 88) because she becomes overwhelmed in high state anxiety but having low state anxiety will not push her to her full potential in the game, being in the middle provides her with the right amount of state
The technique that she uses is elf tak (pg 378)in which she uses positive statements to get herself pumped up and confident through the games even when she feels that she is playing badly. The mantra, “We will win this game”, allows her to be completely concentrated on the game so I asked her what could possibly take her attention off from the game and she responded that the load roaring of the crowd mainly causes her to lose her concentration which is an external distractor (pg 377). I asked her what she did to get the noises out of her head and she said that her mantra were also her cue words (pg 386) to override the noise, clear her head, and prevent her from performing badly on the field. I deduced that the type of attention style that she has to uses is broad-external attentional focus (pg 372) because she has a constant changing environment in which she has to pay attention to many cues in order and narrow-external ( pg 372) to determine what her next move is to play efficiently and effectively. As I was reviewing her answers, I confidently feel that she has a moderate individualized zone of optimal functioning (pg 88) because she becomes overwhelmed in high state anxiety but having low state anxiety will not push her to her full potential in the game, being in the middle provides her with the right amount of state