SED PE 375 Lecture 4: Sport - Lecture 4
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Enhance confidence and practice specific plans to deal with adversity during competition. Practice routines to deal with unusual circumstances and distractions before and during competition. Concentrate wholly on the upcoming performance and block out irrelevant events and thoughts. Don"t worry about other competitors before a competition; instead, focus on what you can control. Achievement motivation: a person"s orientation to strive for task success, persist in the face of failure, and experience pride in accomplishments. Effort to master a task, achieve excellence, overcome obstacles, perform better than others and take pride in exercising talent. Competitiveness: a disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence in the presence of evaluative others. Personality factors: motive to achieve success, motive to avoid failure. Approach success (focus on pride of success) or. Avoid failure (focus on shame of failure) Achievement behavior will vary depending on your result. Approach success: seek out achievement situations, look for challenges, enhanced performance.