| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Personality | The stable, underlying dispositional psychological traits that organize human experiences and shape their behavior and reactions to the enviroment. |
| Sheldon's Constitutional Theory | Personality is based on somatotyping and is rated across three different physical appearances or physiques. |
| Endomorphy:__ | round (fat), affection, sociability, and relaxation. |
| Ectomorphy:___ | linearity (skinny), tenseness, introversion, and artistic intellectualism |
| Mesomorphy:___ | muscularity (athlete), aggressive, dominance, and risk taking |
| Trait Approach | Personality results from moderately stable emotional and behavioral qualities that are inherent at a young age |
| Social Learning Theory | The focus is on situations and learned behavior. |
| Interactionalism | Focuses on the interrelated roles of personality factors (traits) ans social influences (The BIG 5) that combine to shape behavior. |
| 5 Personality Dimensions:___ | Neuroticism, extraversion, opennes to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. |
| Neuroticism | psychopathology (anxiety, depression, anger) versus emotional stability |
| Extraversion | Outgoing, social, high activity level versus introversion |
| Opennes to Experience | Originality, need for cariety versus inability to change. |
| Agreeableness | Amiability, altruism, trust versus egocentrism, skepticism |
| Conscientiousness | Self discipline, achievement, driven, ability to delay gratification (the propensity to follow socially prescribed norms & rules) versus carelessness, disregard, and negligence |
| Is there an athletic personality | There is no single profile, but athletes in the same sport have a sinilar profile. |
| Team sport athletes:___ | less abstract reasoning, more extroversion, more dependence, and less ego strength |
| Individual sport athletes:___ | Higher levels of objectivity, more independent, less anxiety, and less abstract reasoning. |
| Iceberg Profile | Refers to a visual inspection of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) for elite athletes. |
| Elite athletes are what according to the Iceberc profile:___ | Elite athletes are below normal when compared to established norms for the 5 negative mood states and above average for the vigo category (positve mood state) |
| Sensation Seeking | The need for varied, novel, and complex sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical and social risks for the sake of experience. |
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