KIN 102 Final Flashcards
Sports psychology
Sports psychology: the study of the psychological factors that come into play
factors: motivation, group dynamics
two main objectives:
1. how these factors impact performance
2. Find ways to be able to manipulate these factors
Exercise psychology
Exercise psychology: the psychological aspects of engaging in physical activity
Main objective: to help those indulge in exercise
Areas of interest: mood and self esteem with exercise
Sport psychology consulting
Sport psychology consulting: a position which seeks to consult with other members of a team to advise on matters like team dynamics, player motivation and other psychological factors that influence a teams performance
What are the two types of research?
Quantitative
- Draws from numbers
- Trying to establish causal relationships between two or more variables
- Test the strength and significance
Qualitative
- Makes use of words and is descriptive
- Trying to understand how individuals make sense of the world around them
Ways to collect data for research.
Different strategies for collecting data and conducting research
- Interviews
- Questionaries
- Observations
- Physiological measures
- Content analysis
Psychophysiological
Psychophysiological:
- Look at how different physiological factors affect our abilities
Social psychological
Social psychological: a psychological approach that believes that behaviors are the result of an interaction between a personal and environmental factors
Cognitive-behavioral
Cognitive-behavioral: psychological approach that believes behaviors stem from ones internal thoughts and beliefs
Two types of motivation
Intrinsic motivation: what comes from within.
- Stronger
- Less likely to leave
Extrinsic motivation: what comes from the outside like rewards.
Theories to understand motivation: Social cognitive theory
Social cognitive theory: this theory views behavior’s as being personal environmental and environmental factors
- Most prominent theories of motivation
- Created by Alfred bandura
- He conducted studies to see if children would behave the same as adult counterparts upon observation.
- Studies conducted in the 60s
Theories to understand motivation: Achievement goal theory
Achievement goal theory: individuals tend to create their own goals based on task or ego orientations
- These will subsequently influence motivation
Theories to understand motivation:
Attribution theory
Attribution theory: focuses on methods individuals to explain success and failures
- Most researchers have concluded that attributions are important as they can influence feelings of success and failure
- This can shape future motivation and expectations of success
What are success and failiures 3 main categories?
Success and failure can be noted to three main categories
- Whether the issue causing both success and failiure is permanent
- Whether the issue is internal or external
- Whether the issue is under a persons control
5 tips for increasing motivation
- Recognizing that both situations and personality charactaristics can influence motivation
- Remember people have multiple different reasons why
- Sometimes people can change their environment and increase motivation
- Remembering that leaders can play a large role in motivation of an individual
- Setting goals so individuals can see what they are working towards.
Psychological skill development
PSDs: this involves the systematic use of mental or psychological skills
Used to either
- enhance performance
- Increase enjoyment
- Achieve greater satisfaction
Mental toughness
Mental toughness is: being motivated while dealing with pressure and keeping concentration and keeping focus
- Motivated
- Dealing with pressure
- Concentrate
- Maintain focus
Cohesive team unit
Cohesive team unit
- Works to bring people together
- Having good communication promotes cohesive team units
- Being able to listen
- Communicating using non verbal communication
Group role
Group role: some sort of expected behaviors in a role in a group
- Having individuals who can adapt to roles is important.
○ You can have negative group roles or people who bring a team down
○ You can also have positive (task and maintenance roles)
Group norm
Group norm: level of performance, behavior patterns and belief system held by a group.
- Those who are underperforming will often bring in a sports psychologist from the existing norm to a new one
What are the 4 stages to group formation?
What are the 4 stages to group formation?
- forming
- storming
- norming
- performing
Cohesion
Cohesion: total field of forces that act on members to remain in a group.
Two main types of cohesion:
- Task: the degree to which individuals work together for a common goal
○ More related to performance
- Social: reflects the interpersonal interaction between group members
○ How well they get along and like one another
Holistic movement practices
Holistic movement practices: go beyond normal exercise as they improve mental and spiritual too
Verger et al (psychology reading)
Verger et al (psychology reading)
- essentially a call to action that there needs to be more studies conducted in order to find how and who can be more affected by holistic movement practices as not enough is known and this is a new field of study
Motor behavior
Motor behavior: Any type of activity that uses muscle movement
Control, acquisition of skills, how they change over a lifespan
Interested in: How humans learn skills, how we control, how it can be lost, how it can be remembered
Fitts law
Fitts law: Movement speed is related to accuracy
What does physical or occupational therapy do?
May help:
- individuals who are injured in some way to recover lost movement
- Ways to compensate for loss of movement
- Individuals acquire new movements
Motor performance
Motor performance: Observable actions that humans make when performing a task
It includes the conscious decision making that humans make as well as the unconscious movements humans make
Two ways humans control movement
- Physiological
- Psychological
Motor development (longest one)
Motor development: takes months and years
- The study of change of performance over time including growth and development factors as well as practice.
Motor control (mid longest)
Motor control: days and weeks
- The study of motor performance at a given point in time
Motor learning (shortest)
Motor learning: seconds
- Learning or the acquisition of skills over time with practice
3 major researchers in motor performance
Sherrington: study of the nervous system - focused on studying the physiological studies
Woodworth: the behavioral aspects of motor control - movement of accuracy
Thorndike: more in terms of learning in general in the motor context
What was most often used to display nature vs nurture?
Twins were often used to show the difference in nature versus nurture
Henry Franklin
Henry franklin: essentially the founder of kinesiology
Why?:
- They wanted to figure out how the individuals coming into the army could best be positioned.
- They applied principals of motor learning to recruit individuals
What did kinesiologists think in the 1970s?
Most people in the field thought people work like computers and how the brain and CNS controlled our movements.
Nikolai Bernstein (dynamic pattern perspective)
Nikolai he was a neurophysiologist who challenged the role of the CNS as the dominant control of the motor system
His work was known as the dynamic pattern perspective
He worked with mathematics and physics to prove his work
What are the two main perspectives of Motor behavior?
Two main perspectives
- Outside in: looks at the movement then the mechanism
- Inside out: looks at the mechanism then the movement
Neurophysiology
Neurophysiology: looks at patients who have damage to their CNS and look at injuries specific to the nervous system
- This is often done by comparisons between those injured and those not