Kin 150 chapiter 2 personality and individual differences Flashcards
What is personality?
A collection of characteristics that make us:
- Unique
- Impact the way we feel and behave
- is stable across time and situations
Explain the difference between traits and states
Traits: A strength that is unique to you. Stable across time and situations
States: A momentary strength that isn’t stable across time or situations
What are the big 5 that make up one’s personality? hint: OCEAN
Openness - (Imagination, feeling)
Conscientiousness - (Self determined, goal driven)
Extraversion - (Outgoing, social)
Agreeableness - (Co operative, good natured)
Neuroticisme - (Tendency towards unstable emotions)
Does personality affect what sports we play?
No
Humanistic physiology focuses on what? What’s the word for this?
striving for ones full potential AKA self actualization
What personality traits improve or decrease the participation in high risk activities?
Extroversion: increases odds
Neuroticism: decreases odds
Explain Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (5 tiers)
Maslows’s Hierarchy of needs (order of importance):
Physiological needs (air, food etc…)
Safety needs (Financial safety etc…)
Social needs (need others around us)
Esteem needs (Feeling valued, respected, getting recognition)
Self actualization (desire to futile our full potential)
A person who has these are more likely to participate in high risk sport
Sensation seekers (Sensation seekers: Perseus intense sensations and excitement)
Low sensitivity to punishment (Sensitivity to punishment: Intense reaction to stimulus )
Low Telic dominance (Telic dominance: Serious, very goal oriented, avoids excitement)
do athletes have a higher level of competitiveness than non athletes?
yes
What are the 4 personality ideas reached in sport and exercise?
- Competitiveness
- Perfectionisme
- Passion
- mental toughness
What are the two types of perfectionism? What are they?
Personal strivings perfectionism: What you think of yourself
Evaluative concern perfectionism: Worried what others think of you
Burnout speed is faster for some types of perfectionists than others. in order from fastest burnout to slowest rank the types of p[perfectionists.
- pure evaluative concern perfectionist
- Mixed perfectionist and non perfectionist
- Pure personal strivings perfectionist
Explain the 2x2 model of perfectionism. What plus what makes what?
Low personal standards + low evaluative concerns = Non perfectionism
High personal standards + low evaluative concerns = pure personal standards perfectionism
High personal standards + High evaluative concerns = Mixed perfectionism
Low personal standards + High evaluative concerns = Pure evaluative concerns perfectionism
explain the difference between Excellence vs perfectionism
perfectionism: Striving to be perfect
Excellence: Striving to be excellent
What are the two types of passion and details about them
Harmonious passion:
- Engaging in a activity because you get pleasure from it and because it’s part of your identity
- Pursues goals and passions in HARMONY with the rest of the person’s life
- Positively related to performance
Obsessive passion
- Can never switch off
- CONFLICTS with other events in the person’s life
- Positively related to performance
- Higher risks: Injury, burnout, substance abuse
