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Week 7 - Sport Psychology Flashcards

1
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What is Sport Psychology?

A

A science that focuses on psychological principles applied in a sport/exercise setting.

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Sport psychologists help people reach what 3 potentials?

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Confidence
Motivation
Self-Control

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What are the (2) types of self-confidence?

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Global-Self Confidence: General

Situation-Specific Self-Confidence: eg soccer player shooting for goal

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Self-efficacy is a form of what type of S-C?

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Situation specific

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What is self-efficacy in a sporting context?

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Belief in your ability to execute actions required to produce a desired outcome.

It is a strong predictor of athletic performance

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What are Bandura’s 4 elements of self-efficacy?

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Successful Performance
Vicarious Experience
Verbal Persuasion
Emotional Arousal

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Explain what it means by Successful Performance

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Experiences success helps athletes develop a sense of self-efficacy

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Explain what it means by Vicarious Experience

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Self-efficacy can be derived from observing the success of others

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What is participatory modelling?

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Observing performance and then attempting with assistance

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What does it mean by Verbal Persuasion?

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Encouragement from coaches, family and friends can develop self-efficacy

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Explain what it means by Emotional Arousal

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Emotional and physical arousal can impact attention and skill development

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What is Psychological Momentum?

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A positive or negative change in cognition, physiology and behaviour caused by an event or series of events that will result in a commensurate shift in performance and competitive outcome eg slam dunk

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What is the Hot-Hand Phenomenon?

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Idea that performance improves a string of success

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What are the (2) types of arousal hypotheses?

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Inverted U Hypothesis

Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning

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Explain the Inverted U Hypothesis

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At extreme highs and lows in arousal we find detriments in performance

When arousal is moderate, there is an ideal level of heightened arousal that results in maximal performance

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Explain the Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning

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Optimal levels of anxiety differ from person to person, control techniques can be used to fall into optimal range

Ideal level of arousal is determined through retrospective scales of state anxiety, a confidence interval is formed around this value creating an individual zone of optimal functioning

17
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What are some types of unhelpful stressors?

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Worrying about failure, opponents, weather

18
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What is the anxiety stress spiral?

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Making a mistake at the beginning which leads to a flow on effect

19
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What style of coping do athletes tend to use?

A

Approach style (problem or action focused)

20
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What are 2 kinds of coping styles?

A

Self talk

Relaxation strategies

21
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What are task-specific statements?

A

reinforcing aspects of technique

22
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What are the 3 kinds of self talk?

A

task-specific statements
encouragement
mood words

23
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Explain encouragement self-talk

A

Reminding yourself you can do it

24
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What are mood words?

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Saying words before you perform an action eg take a shot

25
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Self-Talk is effect in improving what 2 things?

A

self-efficacy

performance

26
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What are the 3 types of relaxation strategies

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Progressive Relaxation
Autogenic Training
Meditation

27
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What is Progressive Relaxation?

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A process of tensing and relaxing muscles in a predetermined order

28
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What is Autogenic Training?

A

Heavy/warm sensation in the limbs

29
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What is Biofeedback?

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Instruments to monitor things like heart rate allowing athlete to view their heart rate as they experience different thoughts/feelings

30
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How would biofeedback be influential for an athlete?

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Allows them to observe situations that slow their heart rate and then practice this in a sporting setting

31
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What are types of energising strategies?

A

Pep-talks, music, physical movement

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