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Sports and Performance Psychology
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Achievement Goal theory - ✔✔Theory that postulates two types of motivational orientation in athletes:




1. ego orientation: focusing mainly on demonstrating ones competence in given skill by performing better

than others.




2. task orientation: focusing mainly on acquiring certain level of competence in given skill.




--> depends on how they interpret meaning of success or achievement.


Achievement motivation - ✔✔Tendency to strive for success or to expend effort and display persistence

in attempting to attain desirable goal.


Action planning - ✔✔The process by which an individuals intention is translated into specific actions in

order to achieve a desired behavioural goal.


Action plans - ✔✔Specific behavioural acts that serve as stepping stones to goal attainment




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affordance - ✔✔a set of actions that a specific object or environmental context "affords" or makes available

to perceiver.


Anecdotal evidence - ✔✔Subjective evidence derived from examples or personal experience.


Anxiety - ✔✔An emotional state characterized by worry, feelings of apprehension and/or bodily tension,

that tends to occur in the absence of real or obvious danger.


Arousal reappraisal - ✔✔Interpreting increases in arousal as being beneficial to performance.


Attention - ✔✔the concentration of mental effort on sensory or mental events.


Attentional control theory - ✔✔A theory that postulates that anxiety hampers skilled performance by

disrupting attentional control mechanisms in working memory, such as attentional inhibition (the process

which enables people to ignore relevant stimuli) and attentional shifting (the process by which people can

switch attention from one task to another depending on change task requirements)


Attribution - ✔✔The process of drawing inferences from, or seeking explanations for, events, experiences

and behaviour.


Attribution theory - ✔✔The study of peoples explanations for the causes of events or behaviour in their

lives.


Attributional retraining - ✔✔This is a therapeutic strategy that helps people to change the way in which

they perceive and think about the meaning of success and failure.


Attributional style - ✔✔The characteristic manner in which people make sense of, or offer similar

explanations for different events in their lives.


Autonomic nervous system (ANS) - ✔✔Part of peripheral nervous system, that regulates the bodys

involuntary muscles and internal organs.




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Behavioural anxiety - ✔✔A component of anxiety that is typically evidence in such behaviour as tense

facial expressions, changes in communication patterns, and jerky inefficient body movements.


Biofeedback - ✔✔A technique that allows people to monitor and gain control over certain bodily

functions through the use of specialized equipment.


Bio-informational theory of imagery - ✔✔A theory that mental images are not "pictures in head" but

consist of stimulus, response and meaning propositions.


Brainstorming - ✔✔The generation of ideas or suggestions by members of a group in an effort to solve a

problem.


Broaden-and-build theory - ✔✔This theory proposes that positive emotions can broaden peoples

momentary thought-action repertoires thereby enhancing their personal resources.


Burnout - ✔✔A state of withdrawal from a valued activity that is usually caused by chronic stress, and

accompanied by feelings of physical and mental exhaustion


Case study - ✔✔A research method that involves in-depth description or detailed examination of a single

person of instance of a situation.


Catastrophe theory - ✔✔A theory which postulates that high levels of cognitive and somatic anxiety will

produce a sudden and dramatic deterioration of performance.


Choking under pressure - ✔✔A phenomenon in which athletic performance deteriorates suddenly and

significantly as a result of anxiety.


Chronometric paradigm - ✔✔A method in experimental psychology in which the time-course of

information processing activities is used to draw inferences about possible underlying cognitive

mechanisms.




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