Psychological Factors Influencing Individual Keywords

Question 1

Achievement motivation

Answer 1

The tendency to approach or avoid competitive situations. Summed up as the drive to succeed minus the fear of failure

Question 2

NACH

Answer 2

The need to achieve; approach behaviour. The player welcomes competition

Question 3

NAF

Answer 3

The need to avoid failure; avoidance behaviour. The player avoids risk

Question 4

Attributing success internally

Answer 4

Giving a reason for success that is due to the responsibility of the player

Question 5

Interaction

Answer 5

The combination of the situation and personality factors that decide the level of achievement motivation

Question 6

Confidence

Answer 6

A belief in the ability to master a task

Question 7

Trait confidence

Answer 7

A belief in the ability to do well in a range of sports

Question 8

State confidence

Answer 8

A belief in the ability to master a specific sporting movement

Question 9

Competitive orientation

Answer 9

The degree to which a performer is drawn to challenging situations

Question 10

Objective sporting situations

Answer 10

The performance takes into account the situation in which the task is being undertaken

Question 11

Self-efficacy

Answer 11

A belief in the ability to master a specific sporting situation

Question 12

Performance accomplishments

Answer 12

What you have achieved already

Question 13

Vicarious experience

Answer 13

Seeing others do the task

Question 14

Verbal persuasion

Answer 14

Encouragement from others

Question 15

Emotional arousal

Answer 15

A perception of the effects of anxiety on performance

Question 16

Leader

Answer 16

Someone who has influence in helping others to achieve their goals

Question 17

Prescribed leader

Answer 17

Appointed from outside the group

Question 18

Emergent leader

Answer 18

Appointed from within the group

Question 19

Autocratic approach

Answer 19

Leader makes the decisions

Question 20

Democratic

Answer 20

Decisions are made by group consultation

Question 21

Person-orientated leadership

Answer 21

Concerned with interpersonal relationships

Question 22

Task leadership

Answer 22

Concerned with getting results

Question 23

Required behaviour

Answer 23

What the situation demands

Question 24

Actual behaviour

Answer 24

What the leader decides to do in relation to leadership styles

Question 25

Preferred behaviour

Answer 25

What the group wants

Question 26

Stress

Answer 26

A negative response of the body to a threat causing anxiety

Question 27

Eustress

Answer 27

A positive response of the body to stress

Question 28

Cognitive effects of stress

Answer 28

These are psychological

Question 29

Somatic effects of stress

Answer 29

These are physiological

Question 30

Cue utilisation

Answer 30

The ability to process information is directly linked to the level of arousal

Question 31

Attribution

Answer 31

A perception of the reason for an outcome of an event

Question 32

Internal attribute

Answer 32

Within the performer’s control

Question 33

External attribute

Answer 33

Outside the performer’s control

Question 34

Stable attribute

Answer 34

Unlikely to change in the short-term

Question 35

Unstable attribute

Answer 35

Can change in a short amount of time

Question 36

Self-serving bias

Answer 36

Using external and/or unstable reasons fro losing

Question 37

Learned helplessness

Answer 37

Using internal stable reasons for losing

Question 38

Attribution retraining

Answer 38

Changing the reasons given for success and failure