PSYCH 124S Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psych, Critical Role
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She has suffered from some bad coaching, some injuries and a lot of negativity on her team. Lili has also lost her last four matches and has lost confidence. She feels that she is not good at tennis and should probably just find a new sport. Bill usually plays extremely well but today he appears to have the yips and he can"t even sink and easy putt. He describes himself as having snakes in my brain as he can"t stop thinking and worrying about each and every shot. This overthinking makes him lose confidence and miss shots. Self-confidence is the belief that you can successfully perform a desired behavior. Self-confidence can be both dispositional and statelike. Dispositional self-confidence is the degree of certainty individuals usually have about their ability to succeed. State self-confidence is the belief of certainty that individuals have at a particular moment about their ability to succeed.
