Theories Flashcards
Skinner (operant conditioning)
conditioning was more effective by manipulating behaviour towards a stimulus
rather than modifying the stimulus (trial n error)
Thorndikes law (s-r bond)
Law of exercise, effect and readiness
Banduras social learning theory
Learn from s/o by attention, retention, motor production and motivation
Fitts and Posner’s three stages of learning
Cognitive stage, associative stage, autonomous stage
Trait theory
Type A and B personality
Stable and unstable personality
Extroversion and introversion
Interactionist theory
Behaviour is a function of our personality and environment
Inverted U theory
As arousal increases so does performance but only to an optimum level.
Over arousal= decline (anxiety)
Catastrophe theory
As arousal increases so does anxiety, dramatic decline in performance
Somatic low and cognitive high improves performance
Drive theory
Relationship between arousal and performance is linear
Zone of optimal functioning
Perfect fun confident effortless
Instinct theory of aggression
Aggression is innate in everyone and needs to be released
Frustration aggression hypothesis
Frustration leads to aggression, success leads to catharsis, but punishment leads back to frustration
Aggressive cue hypothesis
Certain stimuli must be present for an athlete to act aggressive eg recognising a opp player u used to argue with
Social learning theory
We learn by copying aggression from
S/o
Social facilitation
Coactors and spectators can put pressure on novices or performers of complex skills, but increase professionals/simple skills’ performance
Steiners model of group effectiveness
Group performance declines due to motivation or coordination problems
Ringelmann effect
The larger the group, the worse the performance (social loafing) due to motivational and coordination issues
Craik and Lockharts level of processing memory
Athletes need to understand why they’re doing something to remember it (meaning).
Wieners model of attribution
Ability, task difficulty, effort and luck
Only effort is controllable
Vealeys model of sport confidence
Trait confidence and competitiveness
Subjective outcomes
Banduras theory of self efficacy
If it is low, we’re more likely to avoid a activity, vice versa good performance
