sports psycholgy

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  • personality
    • extroverts- poor at concentrating tasks, bored quiclky, prefer high energy team sports.
    • Introverts- do not seek excitement, drawn to sports that require continuous activity and quiet concentration
    • sports psychology
      • Motivation
        • intrinsic -someone who takes part in sport for fun
        • extrinsic- someone who participates for external rewards including: trophies, medals, money and prizes
    • trait theory- this theory suggests that people have core personality traits e.g being shy when meeting new people , this will carry on in any enviroment you are in.
      • situational theory-this suggets that the enviroment has a strong impact on your traits e.g you could be a shy person at home but on a football field you could be quite agressive
        • interactional theory- this is suggesting that your personality is a combintion of trait and situational. nature vs nurture approach

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