Exam 1 Flashcards
Trait approach
Fundamental units of personality are stable. Big 5)- neuroticism, extra/introversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness
Psychodynamic approach
Conscious and unconscious shaped by childhood
Situational approach
Argues behaviour is determined by situation and environment
Interactional approach
Considers person and environment as co-determinates to behaviour
Phenomenological approach
Behaviour is a mixture of trait and state but also how the person understands and interprets themself
Sport competition anxiety test
Competitive trait anxiety
Competitive state anxiety inventory 2
Per competitive state anxiety
Trait-state confidence inventory
Sport confidence
Ice berg profile criteria
Tension, depression, anger, vigorous, fatigue and confusion
Intra individual
Compare against self
Interindividual
Compare against each other
Motivation
Intensity and direction of effort
Achievement motivation
A persons effort to master a task, achieve excellence, overcome obstacles, perform better than others and take pride in their accomplishments
Competitiveness
A disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence in the presence of evaluative others
Extrinsic motivation
Motivation from others and external influences
Intrinsic motivation
Motivation from doing something for its own sake
Needs achievement theory
Personality times situational = resultant tendency- emotional reactions and therefore achievement behaviours. For low and high achievers
Attribution theory
How individuals explain their success and failure. Stability, locus of causality and control
Achievement goal theory
Achievement goals and perceived ability come together to predict achievement behaviour.
Competence motivation theory
Athletes perceptions of control work with self worth and competence evaluation to influence their motivation
3 stages of developing motivation and competitiveness in children
Autonomous competence, social comparison and integrated stage
Arousal
Blend of physiological and psychological activity in a person along a continuum
Anxiety
A negative emotional state characterised by nervousness, worry and apprehension