Confidence

Question 1

What is self confidence?

Answer 1

A person’s belief in their ability to achieve success

Question 2

What is self efficacy?

Answer 2

Level of self confidence in a specific situation

Question 3

Factors affecting self efficacy- Banduras model

Answer 3

According to Bandura, a performer’s self efficacy is based on 4 primary sources of information:

• performance accomplishments
• vicarious experience
• Verbal persuasion
• Emotional arousal

Question 4

Explain performance accomplishments

Answer 4

=Previous success at the task
What you ave achieved in training and competition forms the basis of future expectations as to your success or failure

Repeated success leads to positive expectations of future success

Question 5

Explain vicarious experience

Answer 5

Watching others of a similar standard successfully perform a skill
‘If she can do it then so can I’

Question 6

Explain verbal persuasion

Answer 6

=Encouragement from significant others

Reasoning and encouraging a performer to build their confidence

Question 7

Explain emotional arousal

Answer 7

Perceiving physiological arousal as indicating emotion

interpreting increases in heart and breathing rate as being positive than negative responses will increase performance

Question 8

What is evaluation apprehension?

Answer 8

A sense of anxiety caused by a performer thinking that their performance is being watched and judged

Question 9

Strategies to increase self efficacy

Answer 9

Goal setting 
Imagery 
Cognitive techniques 
Routine 
Performance accomplishments- achieved through manipulating the environment. Ensure competition can be won and drills can be completed