Psychology revision
Motivation
Arousal
Stress
Anxiety
Aggression
Self-confidence
Self efficiency
Self esteem
Growth v fixed mindset
Resilience
Perfectionism
Group proccesses
Cohesion
Leadership
Interventions
Intrinsic
Extrinsic
A motivation
Play for enjoyment
Play for rewards
No specific reason for playing
Need achieve/need to avoid failure
Task- Humble, want to better themselves Ego- Self-centred want to be better than others
Over motivation- Overly tired, social withdrawal,training addiction Effects- over confidence, burnout, injury
Assertive
Instrumental
Hostile
Relational
Verbal- spreading rumours
Lost control, intent and goal to harm and
Unexpected extra force to gain advantage
Intent to harm, no anger, for example boxing
‘a state of readiness to perform that helps motivate
performers’ Positive and negative High arousal can cause anxiety
Drive theory- arousal high=performance high Catastrophe theory-When arousal is too high performance drops suddenly Inverted U theory- Arousal increases until it hits optimum then drops.
Cogniitive- worry
Somatic- feeling sick, butterflies
Behavioural- biting fingernails, quiet
Competitive- All of the above
Humans need ‘stressors’ to give us energy and direction
to get things done. This type of positive stress is called Eustress If we have too much stress it can become damaging, and we call this Distress
Distress-
Causes discomfort
Can lead to illness
Can cause depression
Eustress- Gives us energy and direction
Helps us to be fulfilled and happy
Performance profiling
Goal setting
Imagery
Self talk
Relaxation techniques
increasing arousal
“The belief that you can successfully perform a desired
behaviour”
Factors
Sources
Constructs
Consequences
Definition: related to perceptions of threat and changes in state anxiety, what you think of
yourself.
Impact: Athletes with low self esteem have less confidence and more state anxiety
than athletes with high self esteem.
Belief that he/she can be successful in specific tasks, skills, or under specific conditions.
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An athletes perception of confidence in a given task at a given time.
It is concerned not with the skills one has but with the judgments about what one can do with whatever skills one possess.
Self-efficacy will predict actual performance if necessary skills and incentives are present.