Chapter 6.3 (Psychological Influences on the Team) Flashcards
(29 cards)
What is BEDTOP?
The behavioural effects due to others present
Define audience
Those who just watch the event
Define co-actors
Those who are doing the same task but are not in direct competition
Define competitive co-actors
Those who are in direct competition
Define social reinforcers
Those who have a direct influence on the event
Define social inhibition
The negative effect of the presence of others on performance
Define social facilitation
The positive effect of the presence of others on performance
Define evaluation apprehension
The perceived fear of being judged
What methods are there to prevent social inhibition?
- Getting the players familiar with playing in front of a crowd
- Gradually introducing evaluation
- Improving focus and concentrations
What are the characteristics of group dynamics?
- A collective identity
- Interaction communication
- Communication
- Shared goal or purpose
What are the four stages of group formation?
- Forming - The group comes together, assessment made on individuals rather than others
- Storming - Potential conflict as individuals may compete to establish position, role and status within the team
- Norming - Once conflicts are resolved, team begins to settle and co-operate with cohesion developing and intention of achieving their goals
- Performing - All players interactive and working together to achieve their goals. Team members support each other
Define cohesion
The tendency for individuals to work together to a chief their goals, the forces that keep the group members on task
Define co-action
When others do the task at the same time but separately
Define interaction
When a group works together to produce results
What are Carron’s antecedents?
- Environmental factors - size of group, time available, mix of age and gender all effect cohesion and productivity
- Personal factors - Similarity of group members regarding goals, opinions and values
- Leadership factors - leader needs to got on with team
- Team factors - success is important and the higher the demand for success the greater the cohesion
Define task cohesion
Individuals working together to achieve an end result
Define social cohesion
Individuals relating to each other to interact in the group
Define actual productivity
The outcome of group performance
Define team
A group that has interaction, shared goals, an identity and communication
Define potential productivity
The best performance based on player ability and group resources
Define faulty processes
The things that go wrong to reduce group outcomes and prevent group potential being reached
Define social loafing
Individual loss of motivation in a team player due to lack of performance identification when individual efforts are not recognised
What is the Ringelmann effect?
Group performance decreases with group size
Define goal setting
Setting targets
