1. Home learning
Read the comments that I have made and answer the questions that I have posed, using a green pen.

2. Home learning task
What were the challenges whilst completing the home learning task from last week?

3. RAP Use the weebly site Underline key words in the question
Ensure research is thorough and use a plan
CUE the question
Review the syllabus to check I include necessary information
Refer to methods of testing (observations, interviews and questionnaires) ensuring their strengths and limitations are discussed
Reference made to the credulous and sceptical approach

4. Review of articles
Tiger Woods – Nature vs Nurture (no conclusive evidence)
Are winners born or made? Nature vs social / interactionist approach. Mention of deliberate practice

5. Personality – Book 1 page 162
Lesson 2 of 2

6. Outcomes
These will be discussed at the end of the lesson to review what you have learnt
You’ll be asked key questions during and at the end of the lesson

7. Measuring personality (beyond the syllabus)
Difficult (no clear definition)
Questionnaires, interview or observation
Degree of measurement error
Talent identification programmes

8. Can we measure personality?
Very difficult to measure due to conflicting definitions Personality tests are frequently used in sport settings and vary in type…
Questionnaires
Interviews
Observations

9. Questionnaires Most common method used… Cheap Easy to produce
Easy to use for larger numbers of subjects
Used almost anywhere
Fairly reliable
However it is difficult to accurately assess your own personality..
Subjective nature of questions
If asked are you often irritable? What counts as being ‘irritable’?
Influence of tester
Answering questions with what you think they want to hear
Self serving bias
Giving answers which protect your own feelings

10. Interviews Try to find out personality through discussions…
Questions asked
Asked to interpret drawings
Greater validity than questionnaires- answers aren’t limited to yes/no
However will have limited reliability
Open to interpretation
Self serving bias
One on one is time consuming and expensive

11. Observations Responses and behaviour are recorded and analysed
Similarities are noted between participants
Person is more likely to participate as they normally would
However will have low Validity
Difficult to interpret behaviour
Will they behave naturally? (especially if they know)
Expensive
Time Consuming

12. Validity, reliability and ethics
What, how and why?

13. Validity, reliability and ethics
It has been concluded that there is no such thing as a sporting personality
No noticeable difference between people who take part in different sports
Why not?
Validity- does the test measure what it is supposed to?
How can it when we have no clear definition of personality
Reliability- are the results repeatable?
Subjective nature of observations and have to interpret your own personality
Ethics- Testing is designed to probe into sensitive areas, information must be treated with sensitivity and confidentiality

14. POMS (beyond the syllabus)

15. Personality and sporting performance
Sceptical approach
Credulous approach

16. MBTI (beyond the syllabus)

17. Mini review
Should personality tests be used to screen participants. Some NFL & NHL teams have used this approach. Discuss – argument tennis

18. Do you take risks in sport?
Imagine that you are taking an exam. If you get a question wrong you will lose a mark. After 20 minutes you’ve answered the questions that you can do. You have 10 questions left, what would you do?
Answer the 10 questions and risk losing marks?
Leave the 10 questions and sit safe?

19. Achievement motivation (nAch and Naf)
Atkinson’s model – key definitions pg 186

20. Nach
NaF

21. Cornell notes

22. Prove it review – Topic Olympic test next week
Aspects of personality that must be covered in your syllabus
definition of personality
interactionalist perspective

personality as a predictor of performance

use of personality testing

profile of mood states (POMs)

achievement motivation - motives to achieve (nAch) and avoid
failure (Naf), and the characteristics of each

incentive value and probability of success
development of approach and avoidance behaviour

23. What did you learn today?
RAG rate your syllabus