KIN 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Iceberg, Drive Theory, Overtraining
23 May 2016
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Kin100 lecture 28 - introduction to sports and exercise psychology. The scientific study of people and their behavior during movement: personality profiles: Is there an athletic personality : yes, and it involves someone being motivated, persistent, competitive, and anything related to these adjectives. Individual improvement this is what we can control: outcome this is what we cannot control, external praise it can work positively and negatively. Definitions of success: being better than others; have a pecking order. Task orientation: individual has a self-referenced definition of success. Ego orientation: defines success as being better than others. People are inherently and proactively motivated to master environment: 1) autonomy (i. e. , self determination) Olympic trials, best athlete is forced to compete (no self determination: 2) competence. Optimally challenging activities to promote feeling of competence. Too hard - you do not feel competent; you feel down. Too easy - you get overconfident; there is no sense of accomplishment: 3) relatedness.
