Understanding how people’s personalities differ can help when designing competition and training plans as well as preparing mentally for peak performance.
Behaviour & Attitudes
The aim of this lesson is to understand the difference between assertion and aggression, and how attitudes are formed and changed (Equivalent to UK A-Level Physical Education) Assertion or Aggression? Assertion is behaviour that is not outside the rules of the game and does not have the intention of causing harm. For example, a fair bit …
Personality & Individual Differences
The aim of this lesson is to understand personality and individual differences between people. (Equivalent to UK A Level Physical Education) What is Personality? Personality can be defined in a number of ways, for example, the sum of an individual’s characteristics which make them unique The pattern of psychological characteristics that make each person unique …
Motivation & Arousal
Motivation is thought to be a combination of the drive within us to achieve our aims and the outside factors which affect it. With this in mind, motivation has the following two forms, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation This is motivation from within. A desire to perform well and succeed. The following will be …
Motivation & Personality
The aim of this section is to understand how an individual’s personality affects their motivation and includes the need to achieve vs fear of failure, self-confidence, and experience. Some people are more naturally driven to achieve set goals than others. These people like to push and challenge themselves.
