Achievement motivation - paper 2

Question 1

what is achievement motivation?

Answer 1

the desire of athletes to continue and aiming to succeed even when failure strikes

Question 2

what is atkinson’s model

Answer 2

combining personality components of achievement motivation “need to achieve” and “need to avoid failure”

equation:
achievement = a drive to + fear of
motivation succeed failure

Question 3

what are the characteristics of NACH (need to achieve)

Answer 3

• willing to take on challenges
• welcomes feedback
• very determined
• approach behaviour
• confidence
• internal attribution
• high levels of task persistence

Question 4

what are the characteristics of NAF (need to avoid failure)

Answer 4

• unwilling to take on challenges
• not open to feedback
• very determined
• experiences learnt helplessness
• doesn’t enjoy responsibility
• attributes success to external factors and failure to internal factors

Question 5

what is approach behaviour?

Answer 5

to be motivated to try and complete very difficult tasks without being afraid to fail

Question 6

4 strategies to promote approach behaviour

Answer 6

1. educating athlete that its okay to fail
2. encouraging athlete to take on new challenges
3. attribution training
4. regularly assessing performance

Question 7

what is attribution training?

Answer 7

ensuring the athlete is aware of how they should attribute their success and failure

e.g. converting all failures and successes to internal (unstable) rather than external (stable) factors

Question 8

the situational component can be separated into 2 parts…

Answer 8

1. INICIATIVE VALUE
   intrinsic value that the performer attributes to completing a task successfully
2. PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS
   how likely a performer is to succeed in their performance

Question 9

what are the 2 types of goals in achievement goal theory?

Answer 9

1. OUTCOME ORIENTATED GOALS
   comparison of their performance to others, such as teammates or opponents
2. TASK ORIENTADED GOALS
   comparison with their current performance and with their past performances, e.g. from the previous season/game

Question 10

characteristics of athlete with ‘outcome orientated goals’

Answer 10

• can affect their meaning of success as well as perceived ability
• tend to not persist with difficult tasks
• they perceive their ability to be high when they beat others and low when they loose

Question 11

characteristics of athlete with ‘task orientated goals’

Answer 11

• view of success bu judging their performance to pervious performances
• not afraid to fail
• have high but reasonable personal performance standards