Long-term psychological

Long-term psychological

1. Goal setting and Performance profiling

   • Goal setting aims to enhance these qualities;
     • Commitment
     • Confidence
     • Control
     • Concentration
   • Effective goal setting provides benefits like;
     • Motivates performer
     • focus attention
     • builds self confidece
   • Type of goal
     • Outcome goals; concerned with an end product
     • Short term goals
     • Long term goals
     • Performance goals
   • Goal setting structure
     • SPECIFIC
     • MEASURABLE
     • AGREED
     • REALISTIC
     • TIME
     • EXCITING
     • RECORDED

2. Motivation and attribution theory, links to performance

   • The direction and intentsity of ones efforts
   • Intrinsic; internal drive or feelings that make us do things
   • Extrinsic'feelings from rewards externally derived
   • Achievement; drive to succeed or persit with a task
   • Personality factors; NACH those with a need to achieve. NAF those who neeed to avoid failure
   • Situational factors; the specific situation in which an individual performs will also affect their decision to accept a challenge. Two determining situational factors are; Probability of success versus probability of failure, Incentive value of success versus incentive value of failure
   • Attribution theory; an approach that attempts to catagorise reasons for winning and failing
   • Four main attributions; ABILITY,EFFORT,TASK DIFFICULTY, LUCK
   • Internal/satble= ability, effort. External/unstable= luck, task difficulty
   • Attribution retraining; helping performers avoid failure by focusing on postive attribtiions and removal of negative feelings. Strategies such as change in tactics, avoid lack of ability as a reason for failure

3. Process of skill development and tatics to improve performance

   • Role of visulaisation; process of creating a mental image of what you want to happen
   • Ritual; can be part of a long term preparation for performance by establishing a comfortable and calming rountine prior to competing
   • Perception dimensions; is dependant on four main components;
     • Pheripheral vision
     • Depth perception
     • Dynamic acuity
     • Static acuity
   • Psychological refractory period; the delay in time it takes a performer to respond to a second stimlus after being presented with a first.ANTICIPATION; this describes the process by which decisions are made from interpreting an opponents movement. DECEPTION; a performer tries to decieve an opponent

4. Consept of cohesion and how it can be used

   • To be successful a tam must develop co-operation and cohesion. There are two types;
     • Task cohesion; the degree that members work together to achieve common goals
     • Social cohesion; the degree to which members like each other and interact
   • Factors that affect the development of cohesion include; envioromental (age, location), personal (drive to win, belief in the group), leadership (influence of caoch, manager), Team (roles, targets)

5. Strategies to enhance group cohesion

   • Holding training camps
   • Aviod star billing
   • Set clear team goals
   • Encourage social bonding
   • Aviod the formation of cliques