ABSTRACT
Researchers in sport and exercise have often looked at goals in terms of objective and subjective goals. “Objective goals” focus on “attaining a specific standard of proficiency on a task, usually within a specified time”. Goals in sport and exercise can be divided into three different types. First are outcome goals, which are typically goals that focus on the end result, which in sport involves competing against others, directly or indirectly. Second are performance goals, which are goals in relation to one’s own level of performance. Finally, there are process goals, which are goals focused on helping athletes actually perform the skill correctly. In effective pursuit of goals, researchers document the role of the executive-control processes that enable an individual to hold relevant information specific to goal for a period of time, constrain internal or external interfering information, and process feedback to adjust the individual’s behaviour when pursuing the goal.
