Sport Phsycology

Question 1

What is Sport Psychology?

Answer 1

Sports psychology is the study of the application of the mind, behaviour, mental states and processes.

Question 2

What are some ways that sport psychology can improve performance?

Answer 2

Ways sport psychology can improve performance include:
- Increasing motivation
- Improving self-confidence
- Improving concentration levels
- Regulating arousal levels
- Decreasing stress and tension before, during and after competition.

Question 3

What is and what are the 2 types of self-talk?

Answer 3

Self talk is about talking/thinking to yourself. Affects your future actions and feelings.

Types:
- Positive
- Negative

Question 4

Positive Self-Talk

Answer 4

• Motivational
• Keeps athlete focus and confident
• Remind athelte about particular aspect of technique or tactic.

Question 5

Negative Self-Talk

Answer 5

• In counter-productive, creates anxiety or self doubt.
• Self critical or demanding.
• Recalling past events when you’ve failed.
• Pessimistic about the situation.

Question 6

What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?

Answer 6

Intrinsic:
Comes form within you, e.g. Enjoyment, satisfaction of performance.

Extrinsic: External sources such as a medal, prize money, publicity, the praise or acknowledgement by the coach.

Question 7

What is arousal?

Answer 7

Arousal can be thought of as the amount of ‘readiness’ a person experiences when faced with a task.

Question 8

What is the relationship between arousal and performance?

Answer 8

Relationship between arousal and performance takes the form of an inverted ‘U’. As arousal increases so does performance, up to optimal point when best performance results. Over-arousal causes performance to decline.

Question 9

What are some relaxation techniques?

Answer 9

3 types:

Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Meditation
Self-Hypnosis

Question 10

Describe Imagery. What are the categories?

Answer 10

The process of using all of the senses to create a picture of your performance in your mind.

5 types:
1.Motivational Specific
2.Motivation general-mastery
3.Motivation general-arousal
4.Cognitive-specific
5.Cognitive-general

Question 11

What is the difference between internal and external imagery?

Answer 11

Internal: Imagining the execution of a skill from within your own body.

External: Viewing yourself as an observer, as if your watching a video.