APA Dictionary of Psychology

performance imagery

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. the use of imagery to cognitively recreate all the sensations of a performance. See mental rehearsal.
  2. the use of imagery during a performance as a cue to tell the body what to do, such as imaging an explosion under the foot at the moment of takeoff for a high jump.
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