Sport Psychology Flashcards
Personality
The patterns of thoughts and feelings and the way in which we interact with our environment and other people that make us a unique person
Trait theory of personality
Personality traits are innate characteristics and are thought to be relatively stable
Type A personality
Highly competitive, strong desire to succeed, works fast, likes to be in control, prone to suffer stress
Type B personality
Non-competitive, unambitious, works slowly, doesn’t enjoy leading, less prone to stress
Stable personality trait
Someone who does not swing from one emotion to another but is usually constant in emotional behaviour
Unstable(neurotic) personality trait
Someone highly anxious with unpredictable emotions
Extroversion
A person who seeks social situations and likes excitement but lacks concentration
Introversion
A person who does not seek social situations and likes peace and quiet but is good at concentrating
SLT and personality
Suggests we learn our characteristics, role models, Observed, modelled, imitated. ARMM
Interactionist approach
This recognises both trait and SLT, more realistic explanation of behaviour, inherit followed by adaption
Attitude
A predisposition to act in a particular way towards something or someone in a person’s environment
Positive attitudes are formed by;
Belief in benefits of sport, enjoys experience, being good at a particular sport, using sport as a stress release
Negative attitudes are formed by;
Not believing in benefits of exercise, a bad past experience, injury, lack of ability, suffering stress
Components of attitudes
Cognitive component - Beliefs
Affective component - emotions
Behavioural component - behaviour
Persuasive communication
An attempt to change the attitude of others, depends on;
The persuader, person attempting the change
The message, quality of the persuasion
The receiver, the person whose attitude is changing
