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| Belief that you can successfully perform a desired behavior. |
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| Expecting something to happen (good or bad) sets off a chain of events causing it to happen. |
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| The unskilled think they're more skilled than they are while the skilled underestimate their ability. The more you study something, you know how hard it is to master. So the skilled know how far they are from their goal while someone who doesn't take it seriously only looks at the short term. |
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| Having confidence that is too low or too high can be detrimental to performance. Being in the middle allows you to use maximum effort, perform to your potential and remain consistent. |
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| The belief in your ability to perform a certain task. A situation specific form of confidence that explains how it is built. Created by Albert Bandura from Stanford. |
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| An added or gained psychological power which changes interpersonal perceptions and influences an individual's performance. |
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| Positive vs Negative Momentum |
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Positive: Periods of competition wheere everything seems to go right.
Negative: Periods where everything seems to go wrong. |
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| The belief that a player is more likely to succeed if they succeeded at their previous attempts. However, there is no correlation. |
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