KEY TERMS Flashcards
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Sport and exercise psychology:
How psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and physical factors. You must receive your doctorate.
Clinical sport psychology:
combining mental training strategies from sports psychology with psychotherapy
- help clients who suffer from mental health problems including eating disorders and depression.
Educational sport psychology:
Emphasize the use of psychological skills training (e.g., goal setting, imagery, energy management, self-talk)
PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT:
process in which a client and consultant partner to accomplish the strategic outcome of optimizing workplace performance in support of business goals.
BEHAVIORAL ORIENTATION:
EMPHASIZES THE ATHLETES OR EXERCISER’S COGNITION OR THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS, BELIEVING THOUGHT TO BE CENTRAL IN DETERMINING BEHAVIOR.
PSYCHODYNAMIC ORIENTATION:
Behavior is determined by several unconscious, constantly changing factors that often conflict with one another.
-Emphasis is placed on understanding the person as a whole rather than identifying isolated traits.
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL ORIENTATION:
- Environmental influences extremely important (External).
- Reward and Punishment /Carrots & Sticks). -Cognition is involved.
- Significant Others/Influencers.
- Observational Learning (modeling)
TRIAT THEORY:
- ARGUED THAT SUCCESSFUL LEADERS HAVE CERTAIN PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE IT LIKELY THEY WILL BE LEADERS NO MATTER WHAT SITUATION THEY ARE PUT IN.
- EX: MJ NOT ONLY LEADER IN B BALL BUT ALSO BUSINESS WORLD
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY:
EXPLAINS AGGRESSION AS BEHAVIOR THAT PPL LEARN THRU OBSERVING OTHERS WHO MODEL PARTICULAR BEHAVIORS, FOLLOWED BY RECEIVING REINFORCEMENT FOR EXHIBITING SIMILAR ACTIONS.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY:
Assumption is that individuals actively construct
meaning in their lives, and that their ability to construct meaning matures over their lifespan.
This maturation is influenced by the interaction between social experience and intra-personal
(cognitive & emotional) developmenT
-COGNITION
-EMOTIONS
RESEARCH QUESTION:
is the THEORETICAL ANALYSIS point of departure of scholarly research in both the natural and social sciences
RESEARCH VARIABLE
is a measurable characteristic that varies. It may change from group to group, person to person, or even within one person over time. There are six common variable types
EMPIRICAL STUDY
One that uses statistics to make an indisputable point, rather than quotes experts.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CORE
The central, internal, and consistent part of an individual’s personality. It includes an individual’s self concept, basic values, attitudes, and motives; a person’s true self.
ROLE-RELATED BEHAVIORS:
How one acts in a particular social situation
TYPICAL RESPONSES
The manner in which a person usually responds to particular environmental situations. Typical responses, when distinguished from play-acting, may be valid indicators of the psychological core of an individual’s personality.
ATTRIBUTIONS/ ATTRIBUTION THEORY:
How people explain their successes and failures • Stability • Locus of causality • Locus of control
PERSISTENCE
firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.
ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION
A persons orientation to strive for task success, persist in the face of failure, and experience pride in accomplishments
ACHIEVEMENT GOAL THEORY
• Focus extra attention on task-oriented goals. • Foster mastery or task motivational climates.
TASK (MASTERY) ORIENTATION
Task goal orientation (or mastery goal orientation)
focuses on improving relative to oneᾼs own past PERFORMANCES.
EGO (COMPETITIVE) ORIENTATION
a dispositional tendency to feel most successful in an activity only when one demonstrates one’s ability relative to that of others, such as when one outperforms an opponent
PERCEIVED ABILITY/ COMPETENCE
the individual believes that they have the skills to succeed in the chosen leisure activity.
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
Entity thinking/Fixed mindset vs. Growth mindset
Make ability attributions (fixed)
Rather than effort attributions (growth)
Can re-train: Attribution Training