psychology

• attitudes to performing physical activity


  following social norms, social learning theory, media influence reinforcing stereotyped
• state and strait anxiety

  state - feeling of anxiousness and fear e.g. embarrassment or injury. trait - situations such as penalty kick as it is innate and generalised
• cognitive dissonance and changing attitudes


  triadic model consists of cognitive, behavioural and affective. cognitive dissonance is when two attitudes conflict each other and cause dissonance
• aggression 


  instinct theory states it is - natural, high arousal, survival response, caused by others aggression
• arousal and catastrophe theory


  Catastrophe theory is a sudden drop off in arousal where the sudden drop equates to a decrease in performance. However before it drops it has to reach a peak and as that peak slowly rises, so does arousal and performance. The peak is the highest arousal and best performance. The drop is straight after and is when there is over arousal which leads to a decrease in performance. However, if the performer does drop, they can get back up to prior levels if they manage to successfully compose themselves - otherwise they will fall further
• Need to achieve performers NACH


  confident, welcome competition, take risks, pride from performance, welcome feedback
• Need to avoid failure NAF


  Give up easily, not like feedback, easy options, lack confidence, avoid 50/50 challenges
• strategies to develop NACH


  reinforcement, attribute success internally, allow success, improve confidence, goal setting