KNPE 265 Midterm Flashcards
Trait vs State
Trait: stable characteristic or quality
State: Momentary feelings depending on situation and time (influenced by environment)
Examples of personality in sport
-risk-taking
-competitiveness
-passion
-mental toughness
-perfectionism
CRMPP
Risk Taking
narrowing physical and psychological safety margins
Three dimensions of an athletes desire to win
1) Competitiveness - the desire to enter and strive for success in sport competition
2)Win Orientation - interpersonal standards and winning (not healthy)
3) Goal Orientation - a focus on personal standards
Types of Passion
Harmonious Passion: engaging in activity as part of ones personal identity and pleasure of activity
Obsessive Passion: Involved a moore rigid and uncontrolled urge to engage in activities because of external control or feelings of guilt similar to addiction)
Mental Toughness
coping with challenging situations
2 general dimensions of perfectionism
Perfectionist Striving - high personal performance standards
Perfectionist Concerns - negative social evaluation
Examples of how to measure personality
-questionaires
-interviews
-observation
What is Humanistic Psychology?
focuses on personal responsibility, growth and self-actualization
Social Learning Theory
people are active agents in shaping behaviours, influenced by inner drives and environment. Focuses on how situations affect individuals and vice versa
Interactionist Approach
personal and situational factors impact behaviour predictively
Meta Analysis
Summary of all studies that exist in an area on a topic
Achievement Goal Theory
Motivational Climate (Task Oriented vs Goal Oriented) influences achievement goal state
Effort vs Ability
Effort - how hard they try to do something
Ability - how well they do something
Ego-Oriented
Compares success to others and thrives to do better than others. Performance Evaluations determine competence, outperforming others is goal.
Task goal-Oriented
Focused on personal growth, accomplished based off task completed regardless of how others did
Dual Process Model
Conscious Process:
Automatic, deliberate, slow and guided by beliefs, values and are of limited capacity
Non-Conscious:
Rapid, impulsive, without awareness and based on feelings, emotions and require minimal cognitive resources
Anxiety
Emotional state characterized by feelings of apprehension and tension associated with arousal
Ontology
Objective or Subjective?
what is there that can be known?
Realism or Relativism?
Realism
external world exists independently of human perception
Relativism
External world exists as mental constructs (based on interpretation)
Epistemiology
origin, nature and limits of human knowledge
Objectivist, constructionist or subjectivist?
Objectivist
empirical evidence
Constructionist
individuals constructing knowledge through experience and interaction with environment (everyone can develop various feelings on some idea)
*truths are not FIXED
Subjectivist
Knowledge and truth are relative to culture, historical and individual perspective
Methodology
ways to find out knowledge
Research Paradigm
The framework a scientific discipline uses to reason
Addresses 3 central questions: ontological, epistemological and methodological
Two Major research paradigms
-Quantitative (Positivist)
-Qualitative (Interpretivist)
Quantitative:
ontology - realism
epistemology - objectivist
Qualitative
ontology - relativism
Epistemology - constructionist or subjectivist
Quantitative is accurate and reliable through _____ and _______
validity and reliability
Quantitative
- deductive process
-positivist
-categories isolated before study
-cause and effect
Qualitative
-Inductive process (building a case)
-categories identified during research
-accurate and reliable through verification
-constructivist/interpretivist
Evidence-based Practice
uses best available research to inform clinical decision making and service delivery
Cognitive Anxiety
Mental component: referring to worries and concerns and unable to focus
Somatic Anxiety
Physical Component: body states (clammy hands, sweating, racing heart, butterflies etc)
Types of Content specific Anxiety
Social Anxiety, Social Physique Anxiety, Competitive Anxiety
Drive Theory
Positive Linear relationship between performance and Anxiety; as anxiety increases so does performance
*THIS IS NOT TRUE
Inverted-U Hypothesis
Anxiety and Performance CAN have a positive relationship until a certain point (ZOF) then declines from there
Zone of Optimal Functioning
optimal state anxiety is “zone specific” to each athlete; this is the most amount of anxiety needed for best performance
Choking in sport
High levels of anxiety cause an athlete to significantly decrease performance