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1
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What is Sport Confidence?

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The degree of certainty possessed about the ability to be successful in sport generally

2
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What is Self-Confidence?

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A trait-like tendency to believe that we are capable of performing desired tasks successfully

3
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what are the 7 benefits of increased self confidence/efficacy?

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  • Positive Emotions
  • Concentration
  • More Ambitious Goals
  • Increased Effort
  • ‘Play to Win’ rather than ‘Play to Not Lose’
  • Generates positive psychological momentum
  • Improves Performance
4
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What are the two types of non-optimal levels of confidence?

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  • Lack of confidence causing anxiety and indecisiveness and lack of concentration
  • Overconfidence causing lack of preparation or effort
5
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What is the definition of Self-Efficacy?

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A situation specific form of self-confidence (A ‘State’, where Self-confidence is a ‘Trait’)

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How does having a weak sense of self-efficacy affect your behaviour, affect and cognition?

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  • Avoiding challenging tasks
  • Belief that difficult tasks are beyond your capability
  • Focus on personal failings and negative outcomes
  • Quickly lose confidence in personal abilities
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How does having a strong sense of self-efficacy affect your behaviour, cognition and affect?

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  • View challenging tasks as something to be mastered
  • Develop deeper interest in the activities in which they participate
  • Form strong sense of commitment to their interests and activities
  • Recover quickly from setbacks and disappointments
8
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Give a prioritised list of the 4 major sources of self-efficacy

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  • Mastery Experiences
  • Social Modeling
  • Social Persuasion
  • Psychological States
9
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What is a ‘Mastery Experience’ and how does it affect self-efficacy?

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Performing a task successfully strengthens self efficacy, but failing a task can undermine self-efficacy

10
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What ingredients must a mastery experience have to be most helpful for developing self-efficacy?

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  • Difficult Task
  • Completed without External Help
  • Infrequent experience of failure
  • Self-referenced
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What is Social Modelling and how is it a source of Self-Efficacy?

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Witnessing other people successfully completing a task; ‘If they can do it, so can I!’

12
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What ingredients must a social modelling experience have to be most helpful for developing self-efficacy?

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Model must be a similar person, and competent at the skill

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What is social persuasion and how does it increase self-efficacy?

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People can be persuaded to believe that they have the skill and capability to succeed, helping to overcome self doubt

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What attributes must a persuader have to make social persuasion an effective method of improving self-efficacy?

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They must be a trustworthy, credible source with prestige.

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How can psychological states be maximised to improve self efficacy?

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Positively interpret high levels of arousal, as readiness rather than fear. A challenge rather than a threat, etc.