paper 2 Flashcards
Personality
psychological characteristics which make an individual unique
Attitude
predisposition for feelings or behaviours towards someone
Motivation
direction and intensity of one’s effort
Arousal
the degree of psychological readiness
*drive theory *inverted u theory *catastrophe theory
Anxiety
negative feelings of worry or/and nervousness relating to arousal
Aggression
Intent to harm outside of rules of sport
- frustration-aggression hypothesis *instinct theory
- SLT *Aggression cue hypothesis
Weiner
Attribution
Perceived cause of success or failure (stable, unstable (neurotic), intrinsic and extrinsic
Confidence
Belief that an individual has about their ability to be successful in sport
Self-efficacy
Self-confidence we feel in a specific situation
Stress
Psychological state produced by perceived physiological and psychological forces acting on our sense of well-being
Factors affecting confidence
Performance accomplishments
Vicarious experience
Verbal persuasion
Emotional arousal
How are attitudes formed
Past experiences Culture Media Education Social learning Social norms
Girdano
Narrow band theory (Trait)
Type A - highly competitive, works fast, strong desire to succeed, likes control
Type B - lack of desire to succeed, low competitive, works slowly, does not like control
Eysenck
Introvert - high sensitivity to RAS, works best with low arousal
Extrovert - low sensitivity to RAS, works best with high arousal
In the Zone
FEARFIC
Focused Effortless Automate Relaxed Fun In control Confident
Attribution retraining
Attribute success to stable, controllable and internal
Attribute failure to unstable, uncontrollable and external
Cue-utilisation
- selective attention
- ignore irrelevant cues
- low arousal = wide
- high arousal = narrow
- at optimal arousal irrelevant cues are blocked
- over arousal = cues will be lost
Zajonc
Social facilitation and social inhibition
- Home advantage
- Type of learner
- Type of skill
- Proximity
- Personality
Faulty processes
MOTIVATION LOSSES *learned helplessness *lack of team cohesion *injury COORDINATION LOSSES *poor team tactics *poor communication *Ringlemann effect
Cohesion
AND
Successful teams
Festinger
total field of forces which act on members to remain in the group
- group integration = how individual members feel about the group as a whole
- individual attraction = how attracted the individuals are to the group
Sharing norms and values Strong team identity Friendship goal Effective leadership Lack of social loafers Correct attribution
need to achieve
need to avoid failure
- feedback *competitive *attribute success internally *self efficacy *approach
- dislike feedback *non-competitive *attributes success externally *lack of confidence
