Sport Psychology

1. A negative emotional state characterised by feelings of nervousness.
3. Your on-going thoughts or internal dialogue.
5. The type of skills that are actions that are executed largely at one's own speed and without interference from other performers
9. Behaviour directed toward the goal of harming or injuring another living being.
10. Undifferentiated bodily energy that ranges on a continuum from sleep to high excitement.
11. A 7-point checklist that helps athletes create more effective imagery
12. This nervous system helps you to relax and can be activated by breathing.
13. This theory suggests that behaviour is learned by observing others.
14. This theory suggests that at optimal arousal levels, performance levels will be at their highest.
16. A sudden impairment or failure of athletic performance due to anxiety.

2. This theory suggests people have an innate instinct to be aggressive that builds up until it must be expressed
4. This nervous system gives you the energy you need to confront a threat or run away from it.
6. Those characteristics of a person that account for consistent patterns of behaviour.
7. This theory suggest that intrinsic motivation can be increased by satisfying three general needs; Competence, Autonomy and Relatedness.
8. Creating or recreating experience in the mind
15. This theory suggests that the relationship between arousal and performance is linear, i.e. as arousal increases so does performance.