Unit 2. Motivation in Sport Copy
How Motivation Affects Sports Performance
1. Neuropsychology and Sport: An Overview
2. Cognitive-Motor Learning and Skills Acquisition
3. Motivation theories – how motivations affect – The Cognitive Advantage
4. Direct Perception Approaches
5. Motor learning
6. Cognition
7. Attention
8. Tactile – Kinesthetic Learning and Styles.
Introduction
Motivation is an internal energy force that determines all aspects of our behaviour; it also impacts on how we think, feel and interact with others. In sport, high motivation is widely accepted as an essential prerequisite in getting athletes to fulfil their potential. However, given its inherently abstract nature, it is a force that is often difficult to exploit fully.
The following video will explain everything you need to know about the difference between nature and nurture theories, how personality can be measured, and, the different types of motivation. Identify how personality can be defined, and the varying arguments throughout the nature vs nurture spectrum, including + Trait theories that look to label features of personality, such as, extrovert, introvert, stable, and unstable + Social learning theories that argue behaviour as being learned through observational learning, and by modelling + Interactionist theories that combine aspects of trait and social learning ideas + Hollander’s proposed series of rings +Explore the factors that create different motivations, such as intrinsic, extrinsic and amotivation +Understand the difference between the need to achieve (Nach), and the need to avoid failure (Naf).
