Personality Attitude And Aggression(paper 2) Flashcards

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What is personality

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The patterns of though and feeling and the way we interact with our environment and other people that make us unique

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3diffencee between type A and B personality types

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Type A-High stress
Strong desire to succeed
Highly competitive
Seeks social situations

Type B- lower stress
Lacks desire to succeed
Less competitive
Avoids social situations

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What is trait theory of personality

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The idea that personality is inherited and doesn’t change it is predictable and isn’t affected by the environment

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What is the social learning theory of personality

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Personality is influenced by the environment and changes with different situations

Adopt personality of role models

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What is the interactionist approach to personality

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Both trait and social learning theory hold some relevance

We are born with certain personality characteristics but they can be modified by interaction with the environment

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What is Hollanders structure of personality

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Inner core=not affected by environment fairly perminany qualities

Middle layer-reveals way we typically respond to certain situations

Outer layer-reveals role related behaviour shows our typical response may be affected by the environment

Social environment affect our role related behaviour

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What is attitude

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A predisposition act in a particular way towards something or someone in a persons environment

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What is prejudice

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A preconceived opinion based on faulty generalisation

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5 attitudes assosiated with sport

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Positives
Belief in value of exercise
Enjoy competition
Good at activity
Enjoy physical sensations
See participation as social norm

Negatives
Believe it’s harmful or they are better of doing other activities
Lack physical skill
Frightened of activity
They see social norm as not competing

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What is stereotype

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A belief held by a collection of people about traits shared by a certain group of people

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What is motivation

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Internal mechanism and external stimuli which arouse and direct our behaviour

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What is a example Extrinsic motivation

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Form of reward or praise

Pressure from other either parents or peers

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What is intrinsic motivation

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Internal drive

Emotional feelings felt when participating such as fun or enjoyment
Personal accomplishments

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What is arousal

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The intensity and direction of behaviour

Can be possitive and negative

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What is the drive theory of arousal

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As arousal increases so will performance levels

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What is drive reduction

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When one’s drive is completed or blocked then performance and arousal will decreases

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What is inverted u theory of arousal

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As arousal increases so does performance until it reaches a optimum level and then performance will decrease

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What is catastrophe theory of arousal

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Performance will increase as arousal does but once it surpasses optimal it will drip drastically

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What is somatic anxiety

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Anxiety experienced physiologically or of the body eg sweating

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What is cognitive anxiety

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Anxiety experienced by the mind

Eg worry about failing

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What is individual difference

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The way people interact with the situation

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What is the peak flow experience

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Sports person who achieves optimum performance level and associated with this a certain emotional response

All else is insignificant

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4 ways of achieving peak flow experience or in the zone

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Be relaxed-don’t need high levels of arousal

Be confident-overall belief in your ability won’t show fear a setback won’t affect your beliefs

Activity is effortless-body and mine are working perfectly together performed tasks with very little effort

In control-you have command over your body and your emotions you dictate your destiny

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What is cue utilisation

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Attention is more affective if the performer concentrated on relevant cues at a particular time.being in control of you attention to detail can be positive and negative could be overwhelmed

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What is aggression

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Intent to harm outside the rules of a sport event

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What is assertion

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Forceful behaviour within the laws of the event

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What is the instinct theory of aggression

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Evolutionary development of our species
Previously humans had to hunt and defend the territory which required aggression
Issue with theory this would suggest all humans are aggressive even though they are not

If aggression builds up it must be released

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What is the frustration aggression hypothesis

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Frustration will lead to aggression

Frustration caused by blocking of goals

Release of aggression will reduce frustration

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What is catharsis

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The release of frustration leads to a feeling of well being

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What is attitude objects

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The idea that a attitude can be formed and changed over time

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4 example do origins of attitudes

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Direct experience
Social influence
Formal education
Conditioning processes

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4 ways of eliminating aggressive tendencies in sport

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Control arousal levels relaxing or channelling aggression

Avoid situations that initiate aggressive response eg changing position

Remove aggressive player completely fro the situation so they can experience a period of calm

Show non aggression role models so that personality is inherited

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What is social facilitation

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Possitive influence of others who may be watching or competing ,on sports performance

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What is social inhibition

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The negative influence on others who may be watching or competing leads to decrease performance

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Ways of reducing social inhibition

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Ignoring crowd or shutting out audience

Coaches teach skill in a non evaluative environment

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What is a trait

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Enduring characteristic of potential anxiety

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What happens during the cognitive stage of learning

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Beginner
Trial And Error
Successful actions can be reinforced unsuccesguk action must not be dismissed

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What happens during the associative stage of learning

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Intermediate
Feedback occurs and learner becomes aware of more complex understanding of the sport
Biggest improvement in performance
Skills learned but not automatic

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What happens during the autonomous stage of learning

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Movements are automatic and don’t require a lot of conscious control
Distractions are insignificant

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What is a group

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Collection of people who share similar goals and interact with one another

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What are the 4 stages of team formation

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Forming
Storming
Norminb
Performing

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What happens during the forming stage

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High dependency on leader for distance
Aims of team are unclear
Roles are unclear

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What happens during the storming stage

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Group decision are difficult
Teams jostle for position
Clearer focus for the team
Team must be focused on goal to avoid being distracted by relationships
Leader has a more advisory role or coaching role

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What happens during the storming phase

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More agreement and conscious opinion in team
Sense of community and unity
General respect for leadership
Roles are clear

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What happens during performing stage

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Team has more strategies and a clear vision and clear aims
No interference from leader
Focus on achieving goals
Disagreement occur but are resolved within team positively

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What is team cohesion

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Concerns the motivation of performers within a team

Group integration how the individual members of group feel about the group as a hole

Individual attraction how attracted the individuals are to the group

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What is social loafing

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When some individuals in group lose motivation

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How can goal setting influence performance

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By directing attention can improve performance

Regulating amounts of effort
No wasted effort

Ensuring effort is sustained until goal is reached so performer doesn’t give up

Motivation of performers increase overall team performance

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What are smart targets

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Specific
Measure able
Achievable
Recorded
Time phases