Anxiety and Performance: A Visual Search Examination of the Processing Efficiency Theory

By N. Murray, Christopher M. Janelle. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

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Choking in sport: a review (2010, background): “Processing Efficiency Theory (PET) (Eysenck & Calvo, 1992) is the established distraction theory and states that inefficient processing will affect performance, unless the athlete responds with increased effort (Murray & Janelle, 2003; Wilson, 2008; Wilson, Smith, & Holmes, 2007b).”
From processing efficiency to attentional control: a mechanistic account of the anxiety–performance relationship (2008, background): “While limited in number, the findings from such studies have been relatively consistent; with anxious participants displaying less efficient visual search strategies (e.g., Murray & Janelle, 2003; Nieuwenhuys et al., 2008) and gaze orientation behaviour (e.g., Behan & Wilson, 2008).”
Anxiety and cognitive performance: attentional control theory. (2007, methodology): “Most findings are consistent with this prediction (e.g., Janelle, Singer, & Williams, 1999; Murray & Janelle, 2003; Wachtel, 1968; Weltman, Smith, & Egstrom, 1971; J. M. Williams, Tonymon, & Andersen, 1990, 1991).”
Constraints on the search for visual information in sport (2004, background): “As anxiety increased, drivers became increasingly distracted by the appearance of relevant and irrelevant peripheral cues, constraining them to fixate peripheral areas of the display more frequently and detracting visual gaze from the racetrack (see also Murray & Janelle, 2003).”
The theory of reinvestment (2008, background): “Closer to competition, Wilson et al. (2007) have showed that golfers under pressure use more time consuming (less efficient) strategies, including longer time to initiate movements and more glances at the target (see also Masters, 1992; Murray & Janelle, 2003; Vickers, 1992).”
Visual Attention and Brain Processes That Underlie Expert Performance: Implications for Sport and Military Psychology (2008, background): “Murray and Janelle (2003) recently investigated how dispositional differences in anxiety might influence performance, and the visual attention mechanisms that underlie performance, in a dual task sport simulation (a central driving task and a light detection task).”