Reference
Sport psychology reference
Definitions, examples from sport, related tests, exercises, specialists and issues.
Всего терминов: 116
A
- Achievement goal theoryachievement motivation through goals
- Achievement motivationthe drive toward success and mastery
- Amotivationno intention to act
- Anxiety in sportspotting anxious thoughts and bodily responses
- Arousallevel of physiological activation
- Associative and dissociative focusattention turned inward or outward
- Athlete burnouttelling tiredness from lasting depletion
- Athletic self-esteemhow you rate yourself as an athlete
- Attentional controlsteering where your focus goes
- Attentional focusaiming attention precisely
- Attentional refocusinggetting focus back after a lapse
- Attentional shiftingchanging focus to suit the situation
- Attentional spanhow many objects your focus takes in
- Attribution theoryhow we explain success and failure
- Autogenic trainingself-regulation through autosuggestion
B
C
- Cognitive anxietyanxious thoughts and doubts
- Collective efficacya team's belief in its shared success
- Competitive anxietyanxiety specific to competing
- Competitive stresstelling mobilization from overload
- Concentrationholding focus at the decisive moments
- Controllability of attributionhow far the cause was within your control
- Coping strategieschoosing how to handle stress
- Cueingprompts that steer attention
D
E
- Ego orientationsuccess as being better than others
- Ego-involving climatean environment of comparison and rivalry
- Emotional resiliencebouncing back from mistakes and pressure
- Eustressuseful, mobilizing stress
- External distractionscrowd noise and your opponent
- External focus of attentionattention on the effect of the movement
- External regulationacting for a reward or to avoid punishment
- Extrinsic motivationthe role of rewards and expectations
F
G
I
- Identified regulationaccepting the value of the activity
- Ideomotor trainingtraining a movement in your mind
- Impostor syndromespotting when you discount your own success
- Individual zone of optimal functioningperforming in your optimal state
- Integrated regulationthe goal is built into your identity
- Internal distractionsthoughts and doubts getting in the way
- Internal focus of attentionattention on the movement itself
- Interpreting anxiety symptomsreading anxiety as help rather than threat
- Intrinsic motivationleaning on interest and mastery
- Introjected regulationmotivation driven by guilt and shame
L
M
- Mental fatiguenoticing cognitive depletion
- Mental self-regulationtaking charge of your own state
- Mental toughnessunderstanding "competitive character"
- Mindfulnessnon-judgemental presence in the moment
- Motivational climatethe environment the coach creates
- Muscle tension (tightening up)excess tension in the body
N
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P
- Panic reaction at the startacute anxiety during a performance
- Perfectionism in sporttelling healthy standards from destructive ones
- Pre-competition anxietylowering anxiety before the start
- Pre-start apathyspotting too little mobilization before the start
- Pre-start feverspotting over-arousal before the start
- Pre-start feverover-arousal before the start
- Present-moment focusattention on the moment you are in
- Progressive muscle relaxationreleasing tension through the muscles
- Psyching up and calming downraise or lower arousal
- Psychological readinessjudging readiness to compete
R
S
- Selective attentionpicking out the signal you need
- Self-confidencebelieving in what you can do
- Self-determination theorythe foundational theory of motivation
- Self-efficacybelief in succeeding at a specific task
- Self-esteemyour overall sense of your own worth
- Self-regulationmanaging your state through breathing, body and thoughts
- Self-talkhearing and changing your self-criticism
- Somatic anxietythe physical symptoms of anxiety
- Sport confidencestrengthening belief in what you can do
- Sport motivationunderstanding why you train
- Stability of attributionhow permanent you think the cause is
- State anxietyanxiety in a specific situation
- State of competitive readinessunderstanding the optimal pre-start state
- State of competitive readinessoptimal mobilization before the start
- Stressthe response to load and demand
- Stressorthe source of the pressure
- Sustained attentionholding concentration for a long time
- Systematic desensitizationreducing fear by approaching it gradually
T
- Task orientationsuccess as personal improvement
- Task-involving climatean environment that rewards effort and growth
- Team cohesionunderstanding what holds a team together
- The need for autonomya sense of choice and control
- The need for competencea sense of mastery and effectiveness
- The need for relatednessa sense of belonging to a group
- The pre-performance concentration routinea ritual for aiming your focus
- The pre-start statereading your level of arousal before the start
- The self-determination continuuma scale of regulation from external to internal
- The Yerkes-Dodson lawhow arousal relates to performance
- The Yerkes-Dodson lawhow arousal relates to performance
- Trait anxietya stable disposition toward anxiety
- Trigger wordsa word that switches on the state you want
- Tunnel attentionfocus narrowing under pressure