Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Goal Setting, Psychological Intervention, Free Throw

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

Document Summary

Easiest way to ask the athlete about the importance of mental skills. Goal setting: goal setting is the most commonly used performance enhancement strategy in sport psychology. It is the most common psychological intervention used in sports, however most athletes rate their goals as being only moderately effective enhancing sport performance. Types of goals: a goal is a target or objective that people strive to attain. Correlated highly with behaviour: skaters made improvement of their skating through goal setting, goal-setting groups held higher perceptions of cohesion then the control group, indicating that goal setting was an effective team-building tool for enhancing levels of cohesion. Identify key performance characteristics of an elite athlete in your sport. These can include physical, technical, tactical and mental characteristics: 2. Identify the ideal rating for each of your characteristics that you chose for the elite athlete in your sport. On a scale of 1-10, this rating is also your ideal score: 3.