Sports Psychology - Goal Setting Flashcards
Why is setting goals used?
- Increase performers, motivation, confidence, and persistence on a task.
- Help alleviate anxiety by controlling arousal meaning and enhanced performance
- Attention and help monitor performance.
What four ways can go setting affect performance?
- By directing attention.
- By regulating the amount of effort that is put into a given task.
- Ensuring effort is sustained and the goal is reached.
- By motivating people to develop a variety of strategies to reach their goal.
How can directly attention to a goal affect performance?
Goals can focus performance on what needs to be done to improve performance in sport.
How can regulating amount of effort that is put into a given task effect performance?
This will ensure that there is no wasted effort on activities that are unnecessary.
How can ensuring effort is a sustained until the goal is reached affect performance?
Goals motivate performance to continue with their effort and not give up too easily.
How does motivating people to develop a variety of strategies to reach their goal affect performance?
In sport, the development of successful tactics can make all the difference between winning and losing.
What is the specific element of smart goal setting?
Goals must be clear and specific to the sport.
What is the measurable element of smart goal setting?
Goals must be assessed so need to be measurable. The more specific means the more measurable they will be. Knowing how well you are doing motivate and ensure you remain realistic about future performance.
What is the accepted aspect of smart goals setting?
Set in consultation with a coach or the team to their shared commitment.
What is meant by recorded in smart goals setting?
Girls that have been agreed should be recorded so progress can be monitored, As goals are achieved, they can be crossed off = motivating performer to press on towards the next goal.
What is meant by time phased in smart goal setting?
Goals should be split into short-term goals leading to long-term goals. This step-by-step approach overtime in insures goals remain realistic and achievable.
What is an outcome goal?
Goals that are targets directed towards an end result of the activity, e.g. a goal of wanting to win a netball match.
What is a performance goal?
Goals that are directed towards the individuals and performance, e.g. to improve the batting average for a cricketer.
What are process goals?
Goals that are used to improve a scale and are often related to technique e.g. improving a cricketers batting technique.
Identify three reasons why sports performer may set goals [3 marks]
- motivation
- Build confidence
- Encourage persistence
- Alleviate stress
- Control arousal
- Improve specific skills
- Improve focus focus
- Track improvements
What is meant by ghost specificity?
Clearly defined goals lead to a better performance. It is hard to evaluate goals if they aren’t clearly defined. Therefore sports that can be objectively measured are easier to make specific.
What is meant by gold difficulty?
Research has shown the setting difficult goals leads to better performance than setting easy goals. Goals are beyond reach equals better performance. Must be achievable but challenging.
What are long-term and short term goals?
- achievement of long-term goals is progressive and must start with achieving short-term goals
- Use realistic target dates to help achieve short-term goals.
- Short term goals provided a greater opportunity for success and reinforce positive feelings to help control anxiety.
What is meant by shared decision making?
- goals set through negotiation and agreement are more effective than externally set goals
- the performer will have a sense of ownership over the goal setting and will be more motivated.
- likely to be fairer and more realistic
