Source Number 3

One of the main points in my research paper is choking under pressure. Many college basketball players choke under pressure because they are literally playing to get a job as a professional basketball player. In the journal: On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure, by Beilock, Sian L he examples difference scenarios that show how and why people start to choke under pressure. The point of this article is to show the researches experiments which explain why people start to choke. This source directly correlates with my research paper because one of the things a college basketball player goes through is pressure. Athletes in their heads always think about what is going to happen if I miss this shot. They ask themselves will I never make it to the NBA, will I lose my scholarship? This source helps me be by proving my point that people do definitely break under pressure. Also the research that was conducted proves that if your experienced in what you do the less pressure there will be. This will help me because college kids have never been in a situation where if they play bad their chance of becoming professional basketball players might be over. Or even if they do become professionals 1 missed shot can become the difference of making 500,000 dollars a year or 6 million dollars a year. This will help me prove that college basketball is in fact dramatic and melodramatic.