Sport Pyschology

Question 1

Groups & Teams

Stages a team goes through
Cohesion & factors affecting it

Answer 1

Forming-
- Set a goal
- Get to know eachother 
- Show respect
- Coach is in charge
Storming-
- Compete with teammates
- Form alliances
- Experience failures
Norming-
- Players start to work together
- Team defines acceptable behaviour
- Have cohesion
Performing-
- Work as a unit
- Dissent is used to improve players
- Team members trusted to perform their role

Task cohesion-
- Their ability to work towards a common goal
- More important than social cohesion for team performance
Social cohesion-
- Interpersonal relationship between players
Factors affecting cohesion-
- Environment (size of team, experience)
- Team (relative ability, success)
- Leader (leadership style)
- Individual (social relationships)

Question 2

Social facilitation & inhibition

Definition of both
Factors affecting it
Evaluation apprehension

Answer 2

Social facilitation-
“The presence of others improves performance”
Social inhibition-
“The presence of others decreases performance”

• Remember NPATHS
  Nature of the audience (hostile/ supportive, close/ far)
  Personality (introvert/ extrovert)
  Arousal (over/ optimum/ under)
  Type of skill (fine/ gross, complex/ simple)
  Home/ Away
  Skill level (novice/ elite, cognitive/ associative)

Evaluation apprehension-
"An increase in arousal level because we are being watched by people who are judging us"
- Affected by;
* Status of observer 
* Personality traits (e.g. High anxiety)
* Self confidence