Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Autogenic Training, Combat Stress Reaction, Stress Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

In addition to these five is coping with emotions: goal setting, most commonly used performance enhancing strategy, rated by athletes as only moderately effective. Incorporate all three types of goals, but focus on process and performance. Effectiveness of goal setting: many positive outcomes of goal setting. Increase self confidence, help with stress management: moderately difficult goals result in the best performances. Assessing goals: performance profiling: a flexible assessment tool that allows for the identification of athletes" performance related strengths and weaknesses, 5 steps of performance profiling. Identify key performance characteristics of an elite athlete in your sport. Set goals for both practice and competition: record goals and make them public, people around you can motivate you. State goals positively rather than negatively: consider four types of team goals. Individual goals for the team: teams overall goal, teams goal for individual members. Common goal setting problems: most common mistake - setting too many goals, cant properly monitor, get overwhelmed, give up.