Sports Midterm Ch. 2 Personality

Front 1

Role-related behavior

Back 1

Most changeable aspect of personality
 Changes as your perceptions of the environment change

Front 2

Psychodynamic method of studying personality

Back 2

 Freud
 Personality is a dynamic set of processes that are constantly changing and are in conflict with one another

Front 3

Trait theory

Back 3

 Personality is consistent and enduring across situations
 Psychological traits predispose individuals to behave in consistent ways irrespective of the situation

Front 4

o Situation approach

Back 4

 Albert Bandura
 Behavior is determined largely by the situation or by the environment
• In sports psychology, environment mostly = competitive environment

Front 5

o Interactional approach

Back 5

 Considers the person and situations factors as codeterminants of behavior
 Linebacker
• Personal trait: aggressive
• Situational factor: competition

Front 6

o Phenomenological approach

Back 6

 Most popular orientation in contemporary sports psychology
 Behavior is best determined by accounting for both person and situational factors
 Study the athlete’s understanding and interpretation of not only themselves, but of their competitive environment

Front 7

• Intra-individual approach

Back 7

o Focuses on how the athlete is feeling relative to how they usually feel; in contrast with comparing to how others feel

Front 8

• Mental Health Model

Back 8

o Proposes that successful athletes exhibit greater positive mental health than less successful (or unsuccessful) athletes exhibit

Front 9

• Iceberg profile

Back 9

o According to Morgan, personality type of successful athletes that reflects positive mental health
 Vigor above the mean of the population but tension, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion below the mean of the population
• All negative traits are below the surface, all positive above