Personality

Question 1

What is personality ?

Answer 1

Unique psychological makeup

Question 2

What are two ways that personality is developed ?

Answer 2

• nature
• nurture

Question 3

What is trait theory ?

Answer 3

• Individuals are born with innate characteristics called traits
• Traits are stable and stay the same through different situations
• Trait tries to predict behaviour
• E.g.An extrovert is likely to be loud and chatty during training

Question 4

What is social learning theory’s opinion on personality ?

Answer 4

• characteristics are developed through association
• behaviour is learnt from significant others (friends, family etc)
  1. Obedience
  2. Identify
  3. Reinforce
  4. Copy

Question 5

What is the interactionists perspective on personality ?

Answer 5

• explains how aspects of our personality are developed
• looks at how behaviour of sports people can be influenced by genetic and environmental factors
• Interactionist perspective is a combination of trait and social learning theory

Question 6

What was Lewin’s perspective ?

Answer 6

• Interactionist perspective
• behaviour is adapted to suit a situation
• B = f(p*e) - behaviour is a function of personality and environment
• Consistent traits are adapted to an environment to produce a typical response

Question 7

What was Hollander’s interactionist perspective ?

Answer 7

Personality is made of 3 factors:
1. Core of the performer - Values and beliefs
2. The typical response (Inherent traits are displayed to a specific situation)
3. Role related behaviours - performer adapts to a specific role when it is required
- the more the environment has an influence, the more likely the behaviour
- e.g. predicting a behaviour to avoid a red card

Question 8

What is the credulous approach to the interactionist perspective ?

Answer 8

Link between behaviour and personality is accepted

Question 9

What is the sceptical approach to the interactionist perspective ?

Answer 9

Link between personality and behaviour is doubted

Question 10

How does having knowledge of the interactionist perspective improve performance ?

Answer 10

• predict player behaviour (remove the situation)
• recreate situations in training
• offer advice - allows support for individuals to adapt