APA 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Goal Setting
6 Dec 2018
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3 stages of psychological skills: education, acquisition, practice. Goal setting in the most commonly used performance enhancement strategy in sport psychology. There are 3 types of goals that athletes can set. When athletes set goals they should keep in mind the three components of goal setting. Goals are important for an athlete to remain optimistic, and help improve self-confidence. Team- goal setting has proved to be and effective tool for team building. Its has been shown that moderately difficult goals achieve the best performance. Assessing the athletes strengths and weakness is important to developing and intervention program. The goals athletes set should not be for only competition but for practice as well. Goals are easier to attain if they are made public. The motivation from people who are aware aids in the attainment of the goal. 2: team"s overall goal, team"s goal for individual teammates.
